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In this paper, the weak gravitational lensing phenomenon for a recently proposed rotating regular black hole with an asymptotically Minkowski core characterized by a sub-Planckian curvature was investigated. Using the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Miles Angelo P. Sodejana

In this paper, we investigate light bending in the spacetime of regular black holes with cosmic strings in weak field limits. To do so, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the optical geometry of the black hole; and, using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-29 A. Övgün

Light deflection in the post-linear gravitational field of two bounded point-like masses is treated. Both the light source and the observer are assumed to be located at infinity in an asymptotically flat space. The equations of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael H. Brügmann

In this paper, we study an asymptotically flat black hole spacetime with weakly nonminimally coupled monopole charge. We analytically and numerically investigate light ray propagation around such a black hole by employing the common…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Mohsen Fathi , J. R. Villanueva , Thiago R. P. Caramês , Alejandro Morales-Díaz

In this article we study gravitational lensing by non-rotating and asymptotically flat black holes in Horndeski theory. By adopting the strong deflection limit, we calculate the deflection angle, from which we obtain the positions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

In a previous paper, we showed that the traditional form of the charged C-metric can be transformed, by a change of coordinates, into one with an explicitly factorizable structure function. This new form of the C-metric has the advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Kenneth Hong , Edward Teo

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 the null geodesics, in particular the stable and unstable light rings and shadows, of a Kerr-Newman black hole immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field as described by the Ernst-Wild (Melvin-Kerr-Newman)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Kate J. Taylor , Adam Ritz

We study the gravitational lensing by a Kerr-Sen Black Hole arising in heterotic string theory. A closed form expression for the bending angle of light in equatorial plane of Kerr-Sen Black Hole is derived as a function of impact parameter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-24 Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan , Philippe Jetzer

The bending angle of light is a central quantity in the theory of gravitational lensing. We develop an analytical perturbation framework for calculating the bending angle of light rays lensed by a Schwarzschild black hole. Using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Savitri V. Iyer , Arlie O. Petters

Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we compute and examine the deflection angle of light rays by rotating regular black holes with a cosmological constant. By the help of optical geometries, we first deal with the Hayward black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , H. El Moumni

We study light propagation and gravitational lensing in scalar-tensor theories of gravity by using a static, axisymmetric exterior solution. The solution has asymptotic flatness properties and is reduced to Voorhees's one in the case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shin-ei Tsuneishi , Kazuya Watanabe , Tooru Tsuchida

In this paper, the null geodesics and gravitational lensing in a nonsingular spacetime are investigated. According to the nature of the null geodesics, the spacetime is divided into several cases. In the weak deflection limit, we find the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-12 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu

Motivated by M-theory compactifications, we investigate optical properties of black holes in the Starobinsky-Bel-Robinsion gravity. Precisely, we study the shadows and the deflection angle of light rays by non-rotating and rotating black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , Y. Hassouni , M. B. Sedra

In this work, we present a theoretical analysis of null geodesics, critical photon orbits, and shadow formation associated with a wormhole generated by a geometric defect. The propagation of light in this spacetime is examined through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 C. F. S. Pereira , H. Belich , A. R. Soares , Marcos V. de S. Silva , R. L. L. Vitória , A. A. Araújo Filho

We consider a Kerr black hole acting as a gravitational deflector within the geometrical optics, and point source approximations. The Kerr black hole gravitational lens geometry consisting of an observer and a source located far away and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Samuel E. Vázquez , Ernesto P. Esteban

Photons emitted by light sources in the neighbourhood of a black hole can wind several times around it before fleeing towards the observer. For spherically symmetric black holes, two infinite sequences of images are created for any given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 F. Aratore , V. Bozza

We propose new analytic formulae describing light bending in Schwarzschild metric. For emission radii above the photon orbit at 1.5 Schwarzschild radius, the formulae have an accuracy of better than 0.2% for the bending angle and 3% for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-05 Juri Poutanen

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

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing by some black hole classes within the non-linear electrodynamics in weak field limits. First, we calculate an optical geometry of the non-linear electrodynamics black hole then we use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 H. El Moumni , K. Masmar , Ali Övgün