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The existence of a massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, coinciding with the radio source Sgr A*, is being established on more and more solid ground. In principle, this black hole, acting as a gravitational lens, is able to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Valerio Bozza , Luigi Mancini

The Faraday rotation measurements of multiply-imaged gravitational lens systems can be effectively used to probe the existence of large-scale ordered magnetic fields in lensing galaxies and galaxy clusters. The available sample of lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 D. Narasimha , S. M. Chitre

The strong gravitational lensing for charged black holes with scalar hair in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory are studied. We find, with the increase of scalar hair, that the radius of the photon sphere, minimum impact parameter, angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Ruanjing Zhang , 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

We study strong gravitational lensing in a static, spherically symmetric, naked singularity spacetime, without a photon sphere. The nature of the singularity is found to be lightlike. We discuss the characteristic lensing features of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Suvankar Paul

Because gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) trace the high-z Universe, there is an appreciable probability for a GRB to be gravitational lensed by galaxies in the universe. Herein we consider the gravitational lensing effect of GRBs contributed by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-18 Chun-Yu Li , Li-Xin Li

We study the strong gravitational lensing on the equatorial plane of a quasi-Kerr compact object with arbitrary quadrupole moments which can be used to model the super-massive central object of the galaxy. We find that, when the quadrupolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Changqing Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The theory of gravitational lensing is reviewed from a spacetime perspective, without quasi-Newtonian approximations. More precisely, the review covers all aspects of gravitational lensing where light propagation is described in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-19 Volker Perlick

Objects orbiting in the presence of a rotating massive body experience a gravitomagnetic frame-dragging effect, known as the Lense-Thirring effect, that has been experimentally confirmed in the weak-field limit. In the strong-field limit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Angelo Ricarte , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Ramesh Narayan , Freek Roelofs , Razieh Emami

Gravitational lensing is one of the most impressive celestial phenomena, which has interesting behaviors in its strong field limit. Near such limit, Bozza finds that the deflection angle of light is well-approximated by a logarithmic term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Xiao-Jun Gao , Ji-Ming Chen , Hongsheng Zhang , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

We investigate a static, spherically symmetric black hole arising in Einstein gravity coupled to a Kalb-Ramond field and ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics, both of which are independently well motivated extensions of standard electrovacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Erdem Sucu , Izzet Sakalli , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We use the Ernst-Schwarzschild solution for a black hole immersed in a uniform magnetic field to estimate corrections to the bending angle and time delay due-to presence of weak magnetic fields in galaxies and between galaxies, and also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Konoplya

In this work, we theoretically investigate the deflection of light for strong- and weak-field regimes in the background of an electrically charged BH described in Kalb-Ramond gravity, which introduces the Lorentz symmetry violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 C. F. S. Pereira , Marcos V. de S. Silva , A. R. Soares , A. A. Araújo Filho , R. L. L. Vitória , H. Belich

In this paper we present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes in the limit of very large deflection angles, restricting to observers in the equatorial plane. We accomplish our objective starting from the…

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

Aim of the paper is study weak gravitational lensing of quantum (perturbed) (QLBHL) and classical (CLBHL) Lukewarm black hole in presence of cosmological parameter $\Lambda$. We apply numerical method to evaluate deflection angle of bending…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 H. Ghaffarnejad , M. A. Mojahedi

Recent developments in the field of gravitational physics, including the emergence of gravitational wave astronomy, black hole images, and more accurate telescopes, have allowed us to probe the strong-field character of gravity in a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Georgios Antoniou

In this work, we analyze the strong lensing phenomenon and quasinormal modes (QNMs) in the case of black holes (BHs) surrounded by fluids within the framework of $f(R,T)$ gravity, adopting a minimally coupled model of the theory. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Ronit Karmakar , Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a charged loop quantum gravity (LQG) black hole obtained through the polymerisation scheme of Borges \textit{et al.} \cite{Borges:2023fog}. These effective geometries replace the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Arun Kumar , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper we have assumed a weak-field regime to explore the gravitational lensed photons in a 4 dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which is very much in the limelight these days. The investigation is conducted in three distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov , Abdullah Zaman Babar

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole (BBH) coalescences provide a unique opportunity to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. To ensure the reliability of these tests, it is essential to identify and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Purnima Narayan , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta