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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

In this work, we investigate the weak deflection angle of light from exact black hole within the non-linear electrodynamics. First we calculate the Gaussian optical curvature using the optical spacetime geometry. With the help of modern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Wajiha Javed , Ali Hamza , Ali Övgün

We investigate the gravitational lensing of massless particles around a Kerr-Sen black hole immersed in a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma distributions are considered in this study to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Sayanika Modak , Hemwati Nandan , Amare Abebe

We investigate cosmology-driven modifications to Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetimes and analyze their impact on photon propagation, gravitational lensing, and shadow observation. The gravitational deflection angle is computed using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Ritesh Pandey , Shubham Kala , Amare Abebe , Hemwati Nandan , G. G. L. Nashed

In this paper the deflection angle of light by a rotating Teo wormhole spacetime is calculated in the weak limit approximation. We mainly focus on the weak deflection angle by revealing the gravitational lensing as a partially global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing properties of magnetically charged black holes within the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics. We derive the deflection angle and examine the influence of the nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Hira Waseem , Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

We propose a new procedure for measuring the spin of a black hole with an unprecedented accuracy based on the gravitational lensing of millisecond pulsars. We derive the basic equations for lensing by a rotating black hole. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

In this review, various researches on finding the bending angle of light deflected by a massive gravitating object which regard the Gauss-Bonnet theorem as the premise have been revised. Primarily, the Gibbons and Werner method is studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Yashmitha Kumaran , Ali Övgün

We investigate the gravitational lensing effects of a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard (D-W) nonlocal gravity. By analyzing the deflection angle in both the weak and strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Haida Li , Xiangdong Zhang

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

The strong gravitational lensing of a regular and rotating magnetic black hole in non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is studied. We find that, with the increase of any characteristic parameters of this black hole, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Zhipeng Peng , Qihong Huang

Acoustic black hole is becoming an attractive topic in recent years, for it open-up new direction for experimental / observational explorations of black holes. In this work, the gravitational bending of acoustic Schwarzschild black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-11 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

The null geodesic equations that describe motion of photons in Kerr spacetime are solved exactly in the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. The exact solution for the deflection angle for generic light orbits (i.e. non-polar,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-08 G. V. Kraniotis

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

We study the strong gravitational lensing due to the Kerr black holes with angular momentum $a$ and the Kerr-Newman black holes with additional charge $Q$. We first derive the analytical expressions of the deflection angles of light rays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-21 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

In this paper, we study the deflection of light by a class of phantom black hole and wormhole solutions in the weak limit approximation. More specifically, in the first part of this work, we study the deflection of light by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-01 Ali Övgün , Galin Gyulchev , Kimet Jusufi

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

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

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