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It is well known that general relativity is an effective theory of gravity at low energy scale, and actually quantum effects cannot be ignored in the strong-field regime. As a strong gravitational object, black hole plays a key role in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Qi-Ming Fu , Xin Zhang

Using data from the Pantheon SN Ia compilation and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we propose an estimator for weak lensing convergence incorporating positional and photometric data of foreground galaxies. The correlation between this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Paul Shah , Pablo Lemos , Ofer Lahav

Motivated by (i) more and more interest in strong gravitational lensing by supermassive black holes due to the achievement of EHT observations, (ii) the ongoing popular topic on the possibility of Lorentz symmetry being broken in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Ali Övgün

We extend a recent work on weak field first order light deflection in the MOdified Gravity (MOG) by comprehensively analyzing the actual observables in gravitational lensing both in the weak and strong field regime. The static spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 R. N. Izmailov , R. Kh. Karimov , E. R. Zhdanov , K. K. Nandi

We study to what extent wormholes can mimic the observational features of black holes. It is surprisingly found that many features that could be thought of as ``characteristic'' of a black hole (endowed with an event horizon) can be closely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We study gravitational lensing in the strong-field limit using the rotating quantum-corrected black hole (RQCBH) with an additional parameter $\alpha$ besides mass $M$ and spin parameter $a$. We discover a decrease in the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-19 Amnish Vachher , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

Constraining the distribution of small-scale structure in our universe allows us to probe alternatives to the cold dark matter paradigm. Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique window into small dark matter halos ($<10^{10} M_\odot$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Jelle Aalbers , Simon Birrer , Ethan O. Nadler , Elise Darragh-Ford , Philip J. Marshall , Risa H. Wechsler

With an intent to explore the interplay between the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) and the presence of dark matter (DM), we obtain a static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solution in the background of nonminimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Sohan Kumar Jha

We examine in a semiclassical framework the deflection function of strong gravitational lensing, for static and spherically symmetric black holes, endowed with a photon sphere. From a first-order WKB analysis near the maximum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-22 Bernard Raffaelli

We study the lensing phenomena of the strong gravity regime of five-dimensional charged, equally rotating black holes with a cosmological constant, familiarly known as the Cveti\v c-L\"u-Pope black holes. These black holes are characterized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Md Sabir Ali , Shagun Kaushal , Yu-Xiao Liu

A new rotating generalization of the Damour-Solodukhin wormhole (RDSWH), called Kerr-like wormhole, has recently been proposed and investigated by Bueno \textit{et al} for echoes in the gravitational wave signal. We show a novel feature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 R. Kh. Karimov , R. N. Izmailov , K. K. Nandi

Superfluid dark matter (SFDM) is a model that promises to reproduce the successes of both particle dark matter on cosmological scales and those of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales. SFDM reproduces MOND only up to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Tobias Mistele , Stacy McGaugh , Sabine Hossenfelder

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

Spherically symmetric black holes produce, by strong field lensing, two infinite series of relativistic images, formed by light rays winding around the black hole at distances comparable to the gravitational radius. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-23 V. Bozza

We study the black hole's shadow for Schwarzschild - de Sitter and Kerr - de Sitter metrics with the contribution of the cosmological constant \Lambda. Based on the reported parameters of the M87* black hole shadow we obtain constraints for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by two static black hole models (Model-1 and Model-2) within the Effective Quantum Gravity (EQG) framework, characterized by mass $M$ and parameter $\zeta$. For $\zeta = 0$, they reduce to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Yiyang Wang , Amnish Vachher , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Sushant G. Ghosh

The optical properties of a thin-shell wormhole (TSW) with a Hayward profile is investigated. Adopting the ray-tracing method, we demonstrate that the TSW's contralateral spacetime is capable of reflecting a significant portion of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Sen Guo , Guan-Ru Li , En-Wei Liang

In this paper, the optical effects that occur near a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) with a Dehnen-type $(1,4,2)$ dark matter (DM) halo are explored. We first derive the photon sphere radius and obtain an analytical expression for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Javokhir Sharipov , Jonibek Khasanov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Strong gravitational lensing offers a compelling test of the cold dark matter paradigm, as it allows for subhaloes with masses of $\sim10^{9}$ M$_\odot$ and below to be detected. We test commonly-used techniques for detecting subhaloes…