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Gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed by matter, offering a unique probe of both the large-scale structure of the Universe and the fundamental properties of GW propagation. GWs can also be affected by wave optics effects when their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Juno C. L. Chan , Conor Dyson , Matilde Garcia , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Luka Vujeva

In this article, we develop a formalism which is different from the standard lensing scenario and is necessary for understanding lensing by gravitational fields which arise as solutions of the effective Einstein equations on the brane. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-30 Supratik Pal , Sayan Kar

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

The gravitational lensing of supermassive black holes surrounded by dark matter halo has attracted a great number of interests in recent years. However, many studies employed simplified dark matter density models, which makes it very hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yi-Gao Liu , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

In this paper, we study the deflection of light by a class of phantom black hole and wormhole solutions in the weak limit approximation. More specifically, in the first part of this work, we study the deflection of light by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-01 Ali Övgün , Galin Gyulchev , Kimet Jusufi

In this paper, we discuss the weak gravitational lensing in the context of stringy black holes. Initially, we examine the deflection angle of photon by charged stringy black hole. For this desire, we compute the Gaussian optical curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-02 Wajiha Javed , Muhammad Bilal Khadim , Ali Övgün

Using a recently found black hole solution in the framework of the Poincar{\'e} gauge theory of gravity, we study gravitational lensing for a system where the lens is a static spherically symmetric black hole. By analyzing the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Saboura Sadat Zamani , Siamak Akhshabi

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the behavior of our universe. The dark matter usually forms halo structures in large number of galaxies. Properties of dark matter halo can be revealed and understood from the gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

The braneworld description of our universe entails a large extra dimension and a fundamental scale of gravity that might be lower by several orders of magnitude compared to the Planck scale. An interesting consequence of the braneworld…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Majumdar , N. Mukherjee

In this work are reviewed several aspects of gravitational lensing produced by astrophysical bodies that strongly curve the spacetime in their vicinity. When an object with a photon sphere (e.g. a black hole) is interposed between a source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-15 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Braneworld gravity is a model that endows physical space with an extra dimension. In the type II Randall-Sundrum braneworld gravity model, the extra dimension modifies the spacetime geometry around black holes, and changes predictions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

We investigate the gravitational lensing properties and the formation of relativistic images associated with black holes modeled by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr space-time geometries. In particular, we perform numerical computations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Angelika Ghazale , Oliver F. Piattella

We model massive dark objects at centers of many galaxies as Schwarzschild black hole lenses and study gravitational lensing by them in detail. We show that the ratio of mass of a Schwarzschild lens to the differential time delay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-13 K. S. Virbhadra

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing by the stationary, axially-symmetric black hole in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime in the strong field limit. The deflection angle of light ray and other strong deflection limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu , Ke Yang

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

In this paper we study the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild solution with holonomy corrections. We use two types of approximation methods to calculate the deflection angle, namely the weak and strong field limits. For the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Ednaldo L. B. Junior , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues , Henrique A. Vieira

We give the formulation of the gravitational lensing theory in the strong field limit for a Schwarzschild black hole as a counterpart to the weak field approach. It is possible to expand the full black hole lens equation to work a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Bozza , S. Capozziello , G. Iovane , G. Scarpetta

We study the gravitational lensing scenario where the lens is a spherically symmetric charged black hole (BH) surrounded by quintessence matter. The null geodesic equations in the curved background of the black hole are derived. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-21 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil