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Is it possible to find imprints of a black hole ringdown through gravitational lensing? To address this question, we formulate an analytic description of weak-field and strong-deflection lensing of light in a time-dependent, perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Reggie C. Pantig

Black hole images are theoretically predicted (under mild astrophysical assumptions) to display a stack of lensed "photon rings" that carry information about the underlying spacetime geometry. Despite vigorous efforts, no such ring has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Alexandru Lupsasca

Light circling around an astrophysical black hole can spend a long time skirting its unstably bound photon orbits before escaping to infinity. To a distant observer, this orbiting light would appear as a bright ring encircling the image of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Stéphane Detournay , Sahaja Kanuri , Alexandru Lupsasca , Philippe Spindel , Quentin Vandermiers , Raphaela Wutte

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

The lensing at large deflection angles caused by a Schwarzschild black hole for the case of a nonminimal coupling between gravitation and electromagnetism is examined. We show that photons follow an effective geometry, which displays an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Santiago E. P. Bergliaffa , Edson Elias de Souza Filho , Rodrigo Maier

We study optical metrics via null geodesics as a central force system, deduce the related Binet equation and apply the analysis to certain solutions of Einstein's equations with and without spherical symmetry. A general formula for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-12 D. Batic , S. Chanda , P. Guha

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

New coordinates are given which describe non-degenerate Kerr black holes in dual-null foliations based on the outer (or inner) horizons, generalizing the Kruskal form for Schwarzschild black holes. The construction involves an area radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing effects of non-linear electrodynamic black holes. Non-linear electrodynamic black holes serve as typical models for multi-event horizon black holes. Depending on the choice of metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Siyuan Hui , Benrong Mu , Peng Wang

The distortion of the spacetime structure in the surroundings of black holes affects the trajectories of light rays. As a consequence, black holes can act as gravitational lenses. Observations of type Ia supernovas, show that our Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-14 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

We develop a unified, analytic framework for gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes. In this first paper we present a new, general lens equation and magnification formula governing lensing by a compact object. Our lens equation assumes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amir B. Aazami , Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

In this work, we investigate the signatures of black holes within an effective quantum gravity framework recently proposed in the literature [1] . We begin by outlining the general setup, highlighting the two distinct models under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Heidari , A. A. Araújo Filho , R. C. Pantig , A. Övgün

Recently, two of us have argued that non-Kerr black holes in gravity theories different from General Relativity may have a topologically non-trivial event horizon. More precisely, the spatial topology of the horizon of non-rotating and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-16 Cosimo Bambi , Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

We calculate the total flux of Hawking radiation from Kerr-(anti)de Sitter black holes by using gravitational anomaly method developed in gr-qc/0502074. We consider the general Kerr-(anti)de Sitter black holes in arbitrary $D$ dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhibo Xu , Bin Chen

The direct detection of a bright, ring-like structure in horizon-resolving images of M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope is a striking validation of general relativity. The angular size and shape of the ring is a degenerate measure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Avery E. Broderick , Paul Tiede , Dominic W. Pesce , Roman Gold

We describe the possible forms of black hole images, viewed by a distant observer. These images are numerically calculated basing on general relativity and equations of motion in the Kerr-Newman metric. Black hole image is a gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dokuchaev

We provide an analytic method to discriminate among different types of black holes on the ground of their strong field gravitational lensing properties. We expand the deflection angle of the photon in the neighbourhood of complete capture,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Bozza

High-frequency very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations can now resolve the horizon-scale emission from sources in the immediate vicinity of nearby supermassive black holes. Future space-VLBI observations will access highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Frederic H. Vincent , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Maciek Wielgus

In the presence of a rotating Kerr black hole, we investigate hydrodynamics of the massive particles and massless photons, to construct relations among number density, pressure and internal energy density of the massive particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-28 Soon-Tae Hong

We derive for the first time the form of the spiral null geodesics around the photon sphere of the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole in the de Sitter expanding universe. Moreover, we obtain the principal parameter we need for deriving,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Ion I. Cotaescu