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Retrolensing is a gravitational lensing effect in which light emitted by a background source is deflected by a black hole and redirected toward the observer after undergoing nearly complete loops around the black hole. In this context, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 L. C. N. Santos , F. M. da Silva , C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra

Understanding the deflection of light by a massive deflector, as well as the associated gravitational lens phenomena, require the use of the theory of General Relativity. I consider here a classical approach, based on Newton's equation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

We discuss strong gravitational lensing by multiple objects along any line of sight. The probability for strong gravitational lensing by more than one lens is small, but a number of strong lens systems in which more than one separate lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

Gravitational lensing has developed into one of the most powerful tools for the analysis of the dark universe. This review summarises the theory of gravitational lensing, its main current applications and representative results achieved so…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthias Bartelmann

In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

In this paper, we delve into the gravitational lensing and photon trajectories in the vicinity of non-asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes within the framework of dRGT massive gravity, incorporating a non-zero graviton mass. We assume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Haximjan Abdusattar , Yu-Xuan Han , Abdujappar Rusul , Shi-Bei Kong

The observation of the bending of light by mass, now known as gravitational lensing, was key in establishing general relativity as one of the pillars of modern physics. In the past couple of decades, there has been increasing interest in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Arthur B. Congdon , Savitri V. Iyer , Charles R. Keeton

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigated the strong gravitational lensing in a Brane-World black hole, which means that the strong field limit coefficients and the deflection angle in this gravitational field are obtained.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 GuoPing Li , Biao Cao , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

In this paper, we study massless braneworld black holes as gravitational lenses. We find the weak and the strong deflection limits for the deflection angle, from which we calculate the positions and magnifications of the images. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

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

Explicit expressions for the bending angle of light deflection arising from phenomenologically deformed black-hole metrics, subject to possible weak and strong quantum gravity effects, respectively, are obtained, by a highly effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Chenmei Xu , Yisong Yang

Gravitational lensing of a light source by a black hole leads to appearance of higher-order images produced by photons that loop around the black hole before reaching the observer. Higher-order images were widely investigated numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

In this study, we review some current studies on Gravitational Lensing for black holes, mainly in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to lensing with references to observational results. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Light rays passing very close to black holes may wind several times before escaping. For any given electromagnetic source around the black hole, a distant observer would thus observe two infinite sequences of images on either side of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Fabio Aratore , Valerio Bozza

Many distant objects can only be detected, or become more scientifically valuable, if they have been highly magnified by strong gravitational lensing. We use EAGLE and BAHAMAS, two recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, to predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Andrew Robertson , Graham P. Smith , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke , Mathilde Jauzac , Matteo Bianconi , Dan Ryczanowski

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

In this work we introduced a new proposal to study the gravitational lensing theory by spherical lenses, starting from its surface mass density $\Sigma(x)$ written in terms of a decreasing function $f$ of a dimensionless coordinate $x$ on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Roger Hurtado , Leonardo Castaneda , Juan M. Tejeiro

We describe a new approach to calculating photon trajectories and gravitational lensing effects in the strong gravitational field of the Kerr black hole. These techniques are applied to explore both the imaging and spectral properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Kris Beckwith , Chris Done