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The deflection of light rays near gravitating objects can be influenced not only by gravity itself but also by the surrounding medium. Analytical studies of such effects are possible within the geometrical optics approximation, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Christian Pfeifer , Barbora Bezděková , 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

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 investigate the strong gravitational lensing of spherically symmetric black holes in the novel Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity surrounded by unmagnetised plasma medium. The deflection angle in the strong deflection limit in EGB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Xing-Hua Jin , Yuan-Xing Gao , Dao-Jun Liu

In this article, we extend the strong deflection limit to calculate the deflection angle for a class of geometries which are asymptotically locally flat. In particular, we study the deflection of light in the surroundings of spherical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Fabrizio Canfora , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

We investigate the influence of plasma presence on relativistic images formed by Schwarzschild black hole lensing. When a gravitating body is surrounded by a plasma, the lensing angle depends on a frequency of the electromagnetic wave due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Mixing between ultralight bosons and the Standard Model photon may allow access to the hitherto invisible Universe. In the presence of plasma, photons are dressed with an effective mass which will influence the conversion between the two.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Enrico Cannizzaro , Thomas F. M. Spieksma

We present comparisons of the deflection angles of massless and massive particles in the Schwarzschild space-time. For the case of photons in a general static space-time, we construct a spatial 3D equation of motion for their path that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Sergio Mendoza , Milton Jair Santibañez-Armenta

We have studied photon motion around axially symmetric rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. It is shown that in the presence of plasma the observed shape and size of shadow changes depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Farruh Atamurotov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

Recently a five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein black hole solution with squashed horizon has been found in hep-th/0510094. The black hole spacetime is asymptotically locally flat and has a spatial infinity $S^1 \hookrightarrow S^{2}$. By using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Nobuyoshi Ohta

Astrophysical black holes are usually surrounded by an accretion disk. At least parts of these accretion disks consist of a plasma in which light rays with different energies are dispersed. However, we usually do not know the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Torben C. Frost

We explore the signature of the extra dimension in the Hawking radiation in a rotating Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizons. Comparing with the spherical case, we find that the rotating parameter brings richer physics. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Songbai Chen , Bin Wang , Ru-Keng Su

In this work, we consider a rotating charged black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. We consider the system to be immersed in non-magnetised, pressureless plasma. First, we evaluate the null geodesics in order to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Anish Das , Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We investigate the deflection of light around a BTZ-ModMax black hole, focusing on the influence of the ModMax parameter and the cosmological constant. The trajectories of massless particles are explored through an analysis of null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Shubham Kala

In this paper, the optical effects that occur near a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) with a Dehnen-type $(1,4,2)$ dark matter (DM) halo are explored. We first derive the photon sphere radius and obtain an analytical expression for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Javokhir Sharipov , Jonibek Khasanov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

In this paper, we study light rays in a Kazakov-Solodukhin black hole. To this end, we use the optical geometry of the Kazakov-Solodukhin black hole within the Gauss-bonnet theorem. We first show the effect of the deformation parameter $a$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Wajiha Javed , Iqra Hussain , Ali Övgün

The null geodesics of the regular and rotating magnetically charged black hole in a non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory surrounded by a plasma medium is studied. The effect of magnetic charge and Yang-Mills parameter on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 Shubham Kala , Hemwati Nandan , Prateek Sharma

As is well-known, black hole plays an important role in probing the quantum effects of gravity in the strong-field regime. In this paper, we focus on a polymerized black hole and investigate the quantum effects on the redshift, blueshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-13 Qi-Ming Fu , Xin Zhang

Strong gravitational lensing occurs when photons pass through the vicinity of a black hole. We investigate this phenomenon in the context of a gravitational-wave event, specifically when a black hole is settling into its final state. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhen Zhong , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen

In this paper, optical properties of renormalization group improved (RGI) Schwarzschild black hole (BH) are investigated in plasma medium. Starting from the equations of motions in plasma medium, we have shown how the shadow radius of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Farruh Atamurotov , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi