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We investigate the strong gravitational lensing phenomena caused by a black hole with a dark matter halo. In this study, we examine strong gravitational lensing with two significant dark matter models: the universal rotation curve model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Dhruv Arora , Farruh Atamurotov , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

We study the lensing phenomena of the strong gravity regime of five-dimensional charged, equally rotating black holes with a cosmological constant, familiarly known as the Cveti\v c-L\"u-Pope black holes. These black holes are characterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Md Sabir Ali , Shagun Kaushal , Yu-Xiao Liu

It is believed that rays bent inside and outside photon spheres could affect partially the black hole shadow images by the Event Horizon Telescope and the rays near photon spheres would be detected by near-future space observations. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Naoki Tsukamoto

It is known that a relative translational motion between the deflector and the observer affects gravitational lensing. In this paper, a lens equation is obtained to describe such effects on actual lensing observables. Results can be easily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno

In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the potential of the galactic center as a probe of general relativity in the strong field. There is almost certainly a black hole at Sgr A* in the galactic center, and this would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 Amitai Y. Bin-Nun

Gravitational lensing allows us to probe the structure of matter on a broad range of astronomical scales, and as light from a distant source traverses an intervening galaxy, compact matter such as planets, stars, and black holes act as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Hugh Garsden , Geraint F. Lewis

We describe the feasibility of detecting the gravitational deflection of light emitted by stars moving under the influence of the massive object at the Galactic center. Light emitted by a star orbiting behind the central mass has a smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adi Nusser , Tom Broadhurst

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing in a Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizons. We find the size of the extra dimension imprints in the radius of the photon sphere, the deflection angle, the angular position and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yue Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate the gravitational lensing of a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole with a global monopole at finite distances. In this asymptotically nonflat spacetime, the deflection angle of light is decomposed into two parts: the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Yi Lu , Xiao-Yin Pan , Meng-Yun Lai , Qing-hai Wang

The detailed study of the strong gravitational lensing of a Kerr black hole within Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) is performed. We calculate the photon sphere, the deflection angle of light, and observables on the equatorial plane under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Bo-Li Liu , Peng-Fei Duan , Yu-Li Lou

The gravitational deflection of massless and massive particles, both with and without spin, has been extensively studied. This paper discusses the lensing of a particle which oscillates between two interaction eigenstates. The deflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 J-F. Glicenstein

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, charged black holes in general relativity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics are studied as gravitational lenses. The positions and magnifications of the relativistic images are obtained using the strong deflection limit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Black holes acting as gravitational lenses produce, besides the primary and secondary weak field images, two infinite sets of relativistic images. These images can be studied using the strong field limit, an analytic method based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Gravitational lensing has become one of the most interesting tools to study the mass distribution in the Universe. Since gravitational light deflection is independent of the nature and state of the matter, it is ideally suited to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider

In the present work, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing in the spacetime of a holonomy corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Analytical expressions for the light deflection angle are obtained in both the weak field limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória

We present a complete treatment in the strong field limit of gravitational retro-lensing by a static spherically symmetric compact object having a photon sphere. The results are compared with those corresponding to ordinary lensing in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Diego F. Torres

A black hole's gravitational pull can deflect light rays to an arbitrary degree. As a result, any source fluctuation near the black hole creates multiple lagged images on an observer's screen. For optically thin stochastic emission, these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Barbora Bezděková , Shahar Hadar , George Wong , Maciek Wielgus

Astrophysical black holes are likely to be surrounded by various forms of matter in the form of disks or halos. While a number of studies have examined the impact of an environment on the lensing of light or gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kyriakos Destounis

We generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta