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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

The standard treatment of gravitational lensing by a point mass lens M is based on a weak-field deflection angle a = 2/x, where x = (r c^2)/(2 G M) with r the distance of closest approach to the mass of a lensed light ray. It was shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. O. Petters

Binary black holes have been in limelight off late due to the detection of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries in the events GW150914 and GW151226. In this paper we study gravitational lensing by the binary black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Mandar Patil , Priti Mishra , D. Narasimha

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

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

The quantum-corrected black hole model demonstrates significant potential in the study of gravitational lensing effects. By incorporating quantum effects, this model addresses the singularity problem in classical black holes. In this paper,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı

Theories of gravity extending or modifying general relativity typically allow for black hole solutions different from the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometries. Electromagnetic observations have been used to place constraints on parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

Is it possible to find imprints of a black hole ringdown through gravitational lensing? To address this question, we formulate an analytic description of weak-field and strong-deflection lensing of light in a time-dependent, perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Reggie C. Pantig

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing and shadow properties of the black hole in the context of bumblebee gravity, characterized by a global monopole charge $\kappa\eta^2$ and a Lorentz symmetry breaking parameter $\gamma$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Bijendra Kumar Vishvakarma , Shubham Kala

We study strong gravitational lensing due to a Schwarzschild black hole. Apart from the primary and the secondary images we find a sequence of images on both sides of the optic axis; we call them {\em relativistic images}. These images are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. S. Virbhadra , George F. R. Ellis

We investigate gravitational lensing in the Palatini approach to the f(R) extended theories of gravity. Starting from an exact solution of the f(R) field equations, which corresponds to the Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric and, on the basis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

This paper investigates the novel phenomenon of gravitational lensing experienced by gravitational waves traveling past a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by a specific, first-order, polar gravitational wave. We utilize the Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We study Bardeen-like regular black holes without Cauchy horizons via gravitational lensing. In the weak field, the deflection angle receives a positive $\ell$-dependent correction, producing a slightly larger Einstein ring. For the galaxy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Limei Yuan , Chen-Hung Hsiao , Yidun Wan

The effect of currents of mass on bending of light rays is considered in the weak field regime. Following Fermat's principle and the standard theory of gravitational lensing, we derive the gravitomagnetic correction to time delay function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno

Recently a renormalizable model of gravity has been proposed, which might be a UV completion of General Relativity (GR) or its infra-red modification, probably with a strongly coupled scalar mode. Although the generic vacuum of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 R. A. Konoplya

In this paper, the null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime are investigated. According to the nature of the null geodesics, the spacetime is divided into several cases. In the weak deflection limit, we find the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-12 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu

This work investigates additional gravitational features of a newly proposed black hole spacetime within Kalb-Ramond gravity, incorporating non-commutative corrections arising from a gauge-theoretic approach recently introduced in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo , Yuxuan Shi

We study the gravitational perturbations of black holes in quadratic gravity, in which the Einstein-Hilbert term is supplemented by quadratic terms in the curvature tensor. In this class of theories, the Schwarzschild solution can coexist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau