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This theoretical investigation examines gravitational lensing phenomena in Schwarzschild-like black holes (BHs) within Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity frameworks incorporating cosmic string (CS) and cloud of strings (CoS) topological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı , Ahmad Al-Badawi

We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

We discuss weak lensing characteristics in the gravitational field of a compact object in the low-energy approximation of fourth order f(R) gravity theory. The particular solution is characterized by a gravitational strength parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 Zsolt Horváth , László Á. Gergely , David Hobill , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Both massless light ray and objects with nonzero mass experience trajectory bending in a gravitational field. In this work the bending of trajectories of massive objects in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the corresponding gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Xionghui Liu , Nan Yang , Junji Jia

Gravitational lensing is an invaluable probe of the nature of dark matter, and the structures it forms. Lensed gravitational waves in particular allow for unparalleled sensitivity to small scale structures within the lenses, due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Luka Vujeva , Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel Gilman , Srashti Goyal , Miguel Zumalacárregui

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

Here the gravitational lensing in strong field limit of a Schwarzschild black hole with a solid deficit angle owing to global monopole within the context of the $f(R)$ gravity theory is investigated. We obtain the expressions of deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Jingyun Man , Hongbo Cheng

Of order one in 10^3 quasars and high-redshift galaxies appears in the sky as multiple images as a result of gravitational lensing by unrelated galaxies and clusters that happen to be in the foreground. While the basic phenomenon is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Prasenjit Saha , Dominique Sluse , Jenny Wagner , Liliya L. R. Williams

We compare and contrast gravitational lensing, in the strong-field limit, by photon sphere in spherically symmetric regular electrically charged (REC) black holes ($0<b\leq b_E$) and with those by corresponding REC no-horizon spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this work, we consider a spherically symmetric static black hole metric in Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity, and investigate the impact of relevant parameters on the black hole shadow and polarization images. For black hole shadow images, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , Muhammad Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

In this work we investigate gravitational lensing effect in strong field region around a dilaton black holes in an anti de Sitter (ADS) space. We also analyse the dependence of the radius of the photon sphere and deflection angle on dilaton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Tanwi Ghosh , Soumitra Sengupta

After exactly a century since the formulation of the general theory of relativity, the phenomenon of gravitational lensing is still an extremely powerful method for investigating in astrophysics and cosmology. Indeed, it is adopted to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Francesco De Paolis , Mosè Giordano , Gabriele Ingrosso , Luigi Manni , Achille Nucita , Francesco Strafella

The null geodesics that describe photon orbits in the spacetime of a rotating electrically charged black hole (Kerr-Newman) are solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. We derive elegant closed form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 G. V. Kraniotis

Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and…

This study investigates the consequences of Lorentz symmetry violation in the thermodynamics and gravitational lensing of charged black holes coupled to the Kalb-Ramond field. We first explore the impact of Lorentz-violating parameters on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Mert Mangut , Huriye Gürsel , İzzet Sakallı

Alternative theories of gravity predict up to six distinct polarization modes for gravitational waves. Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves allows us to probe the polarization content of these signals by effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez

Konoplya and Zhidenko have proposed recently a rotating non-Kerr black hole metric beyond General Relativity and make an estimate for the possible deviations from the Kerr solution with the data of GW 150914. We here study the strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-11 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Fast cosmological transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) represent a class of sources more compact than any other cosmological object. As such they are sensitive to significant magnification via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Mawson W. Sammons , Clancy W. James , Cathryn M. Trott , Mark Walker

This article is devoted to the investigation of the observational properties of the Schwarzschild black hole (BH) surrounded by a dark matter (DM) halo. Our study commences with a brief review of spacetime, including the horizon structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhiyu Dou , Akbar Davlataliev , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Chengxun Yuan , Chen Zhou

We study regular and asymptotically flat phantom black holes as gravitational lenses. We obtain the deflection angle in both the weak and the strong deflection limits, from which we calculate the positions, magnifications, and time delays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra