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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

This article computes the bending angle of a hairy black hole at weak field limits. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem is applied to the Gaussian optical curvature; this gives a way to calculate the hairy black hole light bending angle using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Riasat Ali , Xia Tiecheng , Muhammad Awais , Rimsha Babar

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

In this paper we study gravitational lensing by STU black holes. We considered extremal limit of two special cases of zero-charged and one-charged black holes, and obtain the deflection angle. We find that the black hole charge increases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-03 Hassan Saadat

Current theories of structure formation predict specific density profiles of galaxy dark matter haloes, and with weak gravitational lensing we can probe these profiles on several scales. On small scales, higher-order shape distortions known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Malin Velander , Konrad Kuijken , Tim Schrabback

In this article, we present an overview of the new developments in problems of the plasma influence on the effects of gravitational lensing, complemented by pieces of new material and relevant discussions. Deflection of light in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We provide a discussion on a light ray in a charged black hole solution in massive gravity. To serve the purpose, we exploit the optical geometry of the black hole solution and find the Gaussian curvature in weak gravitational lensing.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Surajit Mandal , Yerlan Myrzakulov , Kairat Myrzakulov

Bright galaxy-galaxy strong lenses are much more powerful than lensed quasars for measuring the mass profiles of galaxies, but until this year only a handful have been known. Here we present five new examples, identified via the optimal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Willis , P. C. Hewett , S. J. Warren , S. Dye , N. Maddox

After discussing some subtle issues concerning the computation of deflection angle, a general but simple expression of bending angle of light rays in weak deflection limit has been presented for a general static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-21 Arunava Bhadra

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the behavior of our universe. The dark matter usually forms halo structures in large number of galaxies. Properties of dark matter halo can be revealed and understood from the gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

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

Strong gravitational lensing provides a geometric probe of cosmology in a unique manner through distance ratios involving the source and lens. This is well known for the time delay distance derived from measured delays between lightcurves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Eric V. Linder

Extended Theories of Gravity with additional scalar degrees of freedom have recently acquired increasing interest due to the presence of a screening mechanism that allows suppressing at small scales (e.g., the Solar System scale) every…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Enrico Laudato , Vincenzo Salzano , Keiichi Umetsu

Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique probe of dark matter (DM) on sub-galactic scales, where the abundance and distribution of low-mass halos are highly sensitive to the underlying properties of DM particles. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Andreas Filipp , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Daniel Gilman , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We investigate the gravitational lensing effects of a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard (D-W) nonlocal gravity. By analyzing the deflection angle in both the weak and strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Haida Li , Xiangdong Zhang

One of the frontiers for advancing what is known about dark matter lies in using strong gravitational lenses to characterize the population of the smallest dark matter halos. There is a large volume of information in strong gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Ryan E. Keeley , Anna M. Nierenberg , Daniel Gilman , Simon Birrer , Andrew Benson , Tommaso Treu

We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

While most strong-gravitational-lensing systems may be roughly modelled by a single massive object between the source and the observer, in the details all the structures near the light path contribute to the observed images. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We study the weak gravitational lensing effect of Non-Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein (BBMB) black hole in new massive conformal gravity. We analyze the deflection angle of light caused by new massive conformal gravity by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Muhammad Yasir , Xia Tiecheng , Farzan Mushtaq , Kazuharu Bamba

Motivated by string theory scenarios, we study the optical aspect of AdS black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory. Concretely, we investigate and examine the shadows and the deflection angle of light rays by such cosmological black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Hajar Belmahi , Amin Mohamed Rbah