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We consider a time-like geodesics in the background of rotating Einstein-Born-Infeld (EBI) black hole to examine the horizon and ergosphere structure. The effective potential that governs the particle's motion in the spacetime and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

Gravitational lensing in metric theories of gravity is discussed. I introduce a generalized approximate metric element, inclusive of both post-post-Newtonian (ppN) contributions and gravito-magnetic field. Following Fermat's principle and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno

In this work, we investigate the gravitational lensing of a charged black hole (spherically symmetric) within the context of Lorentz violation triggered by an antisymmetric tensor field. Our calculations consider two different scenarios:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 A. A. Araújo Filho

Using on-shell amplitude methods, we derive a rotating black hole solution in a generic theory of Einstein gravity with additional terms cubic in the Riemann tensor. We give an explicit expression for the metric in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-25 Daniel J. Burger , William T. Emond , Nathan Moynihan

Gravitational lensing is a powerful concept in the Astrophysics to study black holes. The gravitational field of a massive object like a galaxy or black hole bends and magnifies the light from a distant object behind it. The Schwarzchild…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Amritansh Mehrotra , R. Kanishka

The effect of gravitational wave of cosmological wavelength on the gravitational lensing is investigated. When the source, deflector, and observer are aligned in a highly symmetric configuration, an Einstein ring will be observed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Wenshuai Liu

Strong gravitational lensing from black holes results in the formation of relativistic images, in particular, relativistic Einstein rings. For objects with event horizons, the radius of the unstable light ring (photon sphere) is the lowest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Rajibul Shaikh , Pritam Banerjee , Suvankar Paul , Tapobrata Sarkar

In these lectures I give an overview of gravitational lensing, concentrating on theoretical aspects, including derivations of some of the important results. Topics covered include the determination of surface mass densities of intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alan Heavens

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing of spherically symmetric black holes in the novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity surrounded by unmagnetised plasma medium. The deflection angle in the strong deflection limit in EGB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Xing-Hua Jin , Yuan-Xing Gao , Dao-Jun Liu

At cosmological distances, gravitational lensing can provide a direct measurement of supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses irrespective of their luminosities. Here, we directly estimate the mass of a SMBH in the brightest cluster galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Mandy C. Chen , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim , Jose M. Diego , Youichi Ohyama , Holland Ford , Narciso Benítez

A charged black hole was predicted by the Einstein--Horndeski--Maxwell theory. In order to provide its observational signatures, we investigate its weak and strong deflection gravitational lensings. We find its weak deflection lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-15 Cheng-Yi Wang , Yu-Fu Shen , Yi Xie

We examine the possibility of observing gravitational lensing in the weak deflection regime by the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy M31. This black hole is significantly more massive than the black hole in the center of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 V. Bozza , S. Calchi Novati , L. Mancini

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

Gravitational lensing - the deflection of light rays by gravitating matter - has become a major tool in the armoury of the modern cosmologist. Proposed nearly a hundred years ago as a key feature of Einstein's theory of General Relativity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis

We systematically examine the properties of null geodesics around an electrically charged, asymptotically flat black hole in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, varying the electric charge of black hole and the coupling constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hajime Sotani , Umpei Miyamoto

Recent advances, including gravitational wave detections and imaging of black hole shadows, have strongly validated general relativity. Nevertheless, ongoing cosmological observations suggest potential limitations of general relativity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Ali Övgün , Mohsen Fathi

We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

A detailed analysis is presented of gravitational microlensing by intervening compact objects of the black hole shadows imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We show how the center, size, and shape of the shadow depend on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-14 Himanshu Verma , Joseph Silk

Schwarzschild black holes can produce strong gravitational lensing. The relativistic images are produced due to bending of light around the black hole. We propose a model equation to study the strong gravitational lensing. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-17 Tushar Kanti Dey

In this study, we review some current studies on Gravitational Lensing for black holes, mainly in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to lensing with references to observational results. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya