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Gravitational microlensing of gravitational waves (GWs) opens up the exciting possibility of studying the spacetime geometry around the lens. In this work, we investigate the prospects of constraining the `charged' hair of a charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Uddeepta Deka , Sumanta Chakraborty , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Md Arif Shaikh , Parameswaran Ajith

In this note we revisit the analysis performed in arXiv:2305.07217 of odd-parity perturbations around static and spherically symmetric black holes in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity (ECG). We show that the additional propagating modes always have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Robie A. Hennigar

Extreme gravitational lensing refers to the bending of photon trajectories that pass very close to supermassive black holes and that cannot be described in the conventional weak deflection limit. A complete analytical description of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 V. Bozza

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing by the stationary, axially-symmetric black hole in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime in the strong field limit. The deflection angle of light ray and other strong deflection limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu , Ke Yang

We construct a model for galactic dark matter that arises as a solution of Einstein gravity, and is a Bertrand space-time matched with an external Schwarzschild metric. This model can explain galactic rotation curves. Further, we study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-13 Dipanjan Dey , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Tapobrata Sarkar

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

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

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

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

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

The dark matter halo has non-negligible effects on the gravitational lensing of supermassive black hole in the galaxy center. Our work presents a study on the time-delay of light in gravitational lensing of black holes enclosed by dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su

This paper reviews a phenomenological approach to the gravitational lensing by exotic objects such as the Ellis wormhole lens, where exotic lens objects may follow a non-standard form of the equation of state or may obey a modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-07 Hideki Asada

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 have developed a realistic, fully general relativistic computer code to simulate optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. The standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova

In this paper, we investigate the numerical solutions for spherically symmetric situations in Einstein cubic gravity. In addition to the previously found black hole solutions, we uncover a new class of solutions that lack horizons. Due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Yong-Qiang Wang

We describe a new approach to calculating photon trajectories and gravitational lensing effects in the strong gravitational field of the Kerr black hole. These techniques are applied to explore both the imaging and spectral properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Kris Beckwith , Chris Done

In the neighborhood of Sgr A*, several stars (S2, S12, S14, S1, S8, S13) enjoy an accurate determination of their orbital parameters. General Relativity predicts that the central black hole acts as a gravitational lens on these stars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

Gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed by matter, offering a unique probe of both the large-scale structure of the Universe and the fundamental properties of GW propagation. GWs can also be affected by wave optics effects when their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Juno C. L. Chan , Conor Dyson , Matilde Garcia , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Luka Vujeva

This study examines the combined effect of electric charge and Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) on the observables of strong gravitational lensing (SGL) and the dynamics of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) around an electrically charged,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sohan Kumar Jha

The effect of gravitational wave of extremely low frequency on time delays between different locations on the Einstein ring in a lens system with an aligned source-deflector-observer configuration is investigated. The observer will observe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Wenshuai Liu