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Light rays passing very close to black holes may wind several times before escaping. For any given electromagnetic source around the black hole, a distant observer would thus observe two infinite sequences of images on either side of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Fabio Aratore , Valerio Bozza

In this paper we present an analytical treatment of gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes in the limit of very large deflection angles, restricting to observers in the equatorial plane. We accomplish our objective starting from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta , M. Sereno

The gravitational deflection of test particles including light, due to a radially moving Kerr-Newman black hole with an arbitrary constant velocity being perpendicular to its angular momentum, is investigated. In harmonic coordinates, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

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

We investigate the equatorial deflection angle of light rays propagating in Kerr-Newman black-bounce spacetime. Furthermore, we analyze the light ray trajectories and derive a closed-form formula for deflection angle in terms of elliptic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study the strong gravitational lensing effect around rotating black holes in different gravity theories. By calculating the deflection angle of strong gravitational lensing, we evaluate the lensing observables including the image…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Anzhong Wang

We model massive dark objects at centers of many galaxies as Schwarzschild black hole lenses and study gravitational lensing by them in detail. We show that the ratio of mass of a Schwarzschild lens to the differential time delay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-13 K. S. Virbhadra

The gravitational lensing of relativistic and nonrelativistic neutral massive particles in the black-bounce-Schwarzschild black hole spacetime is investigated in the strong deflection limit. Beginning with the explicit equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guansheng He , Jiaxu Huang , Zhongwen Feng , Ghulam Mustafa , Wenbin Lin

Kerr black holes are among the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's general relativity theory. These rotating massive astrophysical objects drag and intermix their surrounding space and time, deflecting and phase-modifying light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-18 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bo Thidé , Gabriel Molina-Terriza , Gabriele Anzolin

We study gravitational lensing in the strong-field limit using the rotating quantum-corrected black hole (RQCBH) with an additional parameter $\alpha$ besides mass $M$ and spin parameter $a$. We discover a decrease in the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-19 Amnish Vachher , Sushant G. Ghosh

We present firstly equation of motion for the photon coupled to Weyl tensor in a Kerr black hole spacetime and then study further the corresponding strong gravitational lensing. We find that black hole rotation makes propagation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-19 Songbai Chen , Shangyun Wang , Yang Huang , Jiliang Jing , Shiliang Wang

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

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing phenomena caused by a black hole with a dark matter halo. In this study, we examine strong gravitational lensing with two significant dark matter models: the universal rotation curve model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Dhruv Arora , Farruh Atamurotov , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

Gravitational lensing of a light source by a black hole leads to appearance of higher-order images produced by photons that loop around the black hole before reaching the observer. Higher-order images were widely investigated numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We propose a new procedure for measuring the spin of a black hole with an unprecedented accuracy based on the gravitational lensing of millisecond pulsars. We derive the basic equations for lensing by a rotating black hole. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

We study gravitational lensing by a Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) black hole in the weak field limit. We obtain the basic equations for the deflection angle and time delay and find analytical expressions for the positions and amplifications of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

We review the theoretical aspects of gravitational lensing by black holes, and discuss the perspectives for realistic observations. We will first treat lensing by spherically symmetric black holes, in which the formation of infinite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Bozza

We study the deflection angle of a light ray as it traverses on the equatorial plane of a charged spinning black hole. We provide detailed analysis of the light ray's trajectory, and derive the closed-form expression of the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 You-Wei Hsiao , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

We derive the deflection angle up to $O(m^2a)$ due to a Kerr gravitational lens with mass $m$ and specific angular momentum $a$. It is known that at the linear order in $m$ and $a$ the Kerr lens is observationally equivalent to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideki Asada , Masumi Kasai , Tatsuya Yamamoto

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