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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…

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We investigate the astrophysical consequences of black holes in quadratic gravity, characterized by the parameters $S_0$, $S_2$, $m_0$ and $m_2$, in addition to the black hole mass $M$. To evaluate the physical validity of the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Somi Aktar , Niyaz Uddin Molla , Farook Rahaman , G. Mustafa

Konoplya and Zhidenko have proposed recently a rotating non-Kerr black hole metric beyond General Relativity and make an estimate for the possible deviations from the Kerr solution with the data of GW 150914. We here study the strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-11 Shangyun Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a marginally unstable photon sphere in a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m naked singularity spacetime. Using the Picard-Fuchs equation, we derive full-order power series expressions for the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Tadashi Sasaki

Gravitational lensing is a well known phenomenon predicted by the General Theory of Relativity. It is now a well-developed observational technique in astronomy and is considered to be a fundamental tool for acquiring information about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. De Paolis , A. Geralico , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

We discuss weak lensing characteristics in the gravitational field of a compact object in the low-energy approximation of fourth order f(R) gravity theory. The particular solution is characterized by a gravitational strength parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 Zsolt Horváth , László Á. Gergely , David Hobill , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

It is commonly thought that the final product of gravitational collapse is a black hole. Nevertheless, theoretical studies have not yet provided a final answer to the question whether black holes are the only possible outcome or whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-31 Honghui Liu , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi

We compare and contrast gravitational lensing, in the strong-field limit, by photon sphere in spherically symmetric regular electrically charged (REC) black holes ($0<b\leq b_E$) and with those by corresponding REC no-horizon spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing for black hole with scalar charge in massive gravity. We find that the scalar charge and the type of the black hole significantly affect the radius of the photon sphere, deflection angle,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Songbai Chen

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around weakly and strongly naked Janis-Newman-Winicour singularities. We consider an analytical toy model of thin magnetized fluid ring orbiting in the equatorial plane and emitting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Valentin Deliyski , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

Recently, it has been reported that photons can traverse naked singularities in the Janis-Newman-Winicour and Born-Infeld spacetimes when these singularities are appropriately regularized. In this paper, we investigate observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Yiqian Chen , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetime in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed in [K. Yang et. al., Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 124004]. The solution is…

The study investigates orbital motion of test particles near compact objects described by solutions involving massless scalar fields, electromagnetic fields, and nonlinear electrodynamics. Specifically, we analyze orbital dynamics in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 J. Horák , T. Tahamtan , T. Hale , G. Török , A. Kotrlová , E. Šrámková

We examine the gravitational lensing phenomenon caused by photon spheres in the Born-Infeld naked singularity spacetime, where gravity is coupled with Born-Infeld electrodynamics. Specifically, our focus lies on relativistic images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Yiqian Chen , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Previously, it was noticed that in some space-times with Killing horizons some curvature components, responsible for tidal forces, small or even zero in the static frame, become enhanced from the viewpoint of a falling observer. This leads…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 H. V. Ovcharenko , O. B. Zaslavskii

Light rays passing very close to a black hole may experience very strong deviations. Two geometries were separately considered in the recent literature: a source behind the black hole (standard gravitational lensing); a source in front of…

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

In this article, we conduct a sequential study of possible observable images of black hole simulators described by two recently obtained rotating geometries in Einstein gravity, minimally coupled to a scalar field. One of them, "Kerr-like"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Igor Bogush , Dmitri Gal'tsov , Galin Gyulchev , Kirill Kobialko , Petya Nedkova , Tsvetan Vetsov

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing properties of magnetically charged black holes within the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics. We derive the deflection angle and examine the influence of the nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Hira Waseem , Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

In the present paper we study the geodesic structure of the Janis-Newman-Winicour(JNW) space-time which contains a strong curvature naked singularity. This metric is an extension of the Schwarzschild geometry when a massless scalar field is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Sheng Zhou , Ruanjing Zhang , Juhua Chen , Yongjiu Wang

Motivated by the lack of rotating solutions sourced by matter in General Relativity as well as in modified gravity theories, we extend a recently discovered exact rotating solution of the minimal Einstein-scalar theory to its counterpart in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Wei-Hsiang Shao , Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen