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We study shadows cast by a certain class of rotating wormholes and point out the crucial role of a rotating wormhole throat in the formation of a shadow. Overlooking this crucial role of a wormhole throat has resulted incomplete results in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-31 Rajibul Shaikh

In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

Galaxy-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool in Astrophysics and Cosmology, enabling studies of massive galaxies' internal structure, their formation and evolution, stellar initial mass function, and cosmological parameters. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Anowar J. Shajib

Massive structures, such as galaxies, act as strong gravitational lenses on background sources. When the background source is a quasar, several lensed images are seen, as magnified or de-magnified versions of the same object. The detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Courbin , P. Saha , P. L. Schechter

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing of a spherically symmetric spacetime in the Einstein-Proca theory. With the strong field limit coefficient, three observable quantities are obtained,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-19 Guoping Li , Yan Zhang , Li Zhang , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

We consider Ellis wormholes immersed in rotating matter in the form of an ordinary complex boson field. The resulting wormholes may possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the two asymptotically flat spacetime regions. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We study geodesic motion near the throats of asymptotically flat, static, spherically~symmetric traversable wormholes supported by a self-gravitating minimally coupled phantom scalar field with an arbitrary self-interaction potential. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Ivan Potashov , Julia Tchemarina , Alexander Tsirulev

Black holes acting as gravitational lenses produce, besides the primary and secondary weak field images, two infinite sets of relativistic images. These images can be studied using the strong field limit, an analytic method based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa

We demonstrate that rotating matter sets the throat of an Ellis wormhole into rotation, allowing for wormholes which possess full reflection symmetry with respect to the two asymptotically flat spacetime regions. We analyze the properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The paper considers the problem of the possibility of observing an accretion disk through the throat of the Ellis-Bronnikov-Morris-Thorne wormhole. It is shown that this image has a complex structure and is fundamentally different from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 I. D. Novikov , S. V. Repin , D. A. Paksivatova

We perform a statistical analysis of strong gravitational lensing by quasar hosts of background galaxies, in the two competing models of dark matter halos of quasars, HOD and CS models. Utilizing the BolshoiP Simulation we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Renyue Cen , Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

In this paper, we explore the strong gravitational lensing properties of black holes embedded in self-interacting scalar field dark matter halos, together with NFW-type configurations for comparison. The corresponding spacetime geometry is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Mohsen Fathi , Gabriel Gómez

In this work, we calculate the deflection angle of light in a spacetime that interpolates between regular black holes and traversable wormholes, depending on the free parameter of the metric. Afterwards, this angular deflection is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio , A. R. Soares

In this paper, charged black holes in general relativity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics are studied as gravitational lenses. The positions and magnifications of the relativistic images are obtained using the strong deflection limit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa

In this paper we study the strong gravitational lensing scenario where the lens is a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. We obtain the basic equations and show that, as in the case of Schwarzschild black hole, besides the primary and secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres

Cosmic voids are increasingly recognized as a promising tool for cosmological exploration. Their distribution and density profiles are highly responsive to alterations in gravitational theories, along with the influences of dark energy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Errehymy , S. Hansraj

In this manuscript, we consider the hairy Schwarzschild black hole that evades the no-hair theorem. The hair is induced by an additional source from surroundings, such as dark matter, that has a constant energy-momentum tensor(EMT). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-13 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

Observational measurements of the relationship between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the properties of their host galaxies are an important method for probing theoretical hierarchical growth models. Gravitational lensing is a unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Judd D. Bowman , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , James R. Kiger

We study gravitational lensing in strong-field limit by a static spherically symmetric black hole in quartic scalar field Horndeski gravity having additional hair parameter $q$, evading the no-hair theorem. We find an increase in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

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