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It is shown in this paper that it is possible, at least in principle, to construct a traversable wormhole that is stable to linearized radial perturbations by specifying relatively simple conditions on the shape and redshift functions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-29 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this paper, we address a theoretical investigation of the gravitational lensing phenomenon within the space-time framework of a holonomy-corrected spherically symmetric black hole (BH), incorporating both ordinary and phantom global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Faizuddin Ahmed

We calculate the deflection of a light ray caused by the gravitational field of a cosmic string loop in the weak field limit and reduce the problem to a single quadrature over a time slice of the loop's world sheet. We then apply this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Andrew A de Laix , Tanmay Vachaspati

We consider bound geodesic orbits of test masses in the exterior gravitational field of a rotating astronomical source whose proper angular momentum varies linearly with time. The linear perturbation approach of Lense and Thirring is herein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon

In the present manuscript, we study traversable wormhole solutions in the background of extended symmetric teleparallel gravity with matter coupling. With the anisotropic matter distribution we probe the wormhole geometry for two different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 V. Venkatesha , Chaitra Chooda Chalavadi , N. S. Kavya , P. K. Sahoo

We develop the spacetime approach to gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric perturbations of flat, cosmological constant-dominated Friedman-Robertson-Walker metrics. The geodesics of the spacetime are expressed as integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Thomas P. Kling , Sophia MacQueen Pooler

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around a class of static traversable wormholes. Applying the simplified model of a magnetized fluid ring orbiting in the equatorial plane, we search for characteristic signatures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Valentin Delijski , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

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

In the present article, models of traversable wormholes within the $f(R, T)$ modified gravity theory are investigated. We have presented some wormhole models, developed from various hypothesis for the substance of their matter, i.e. various…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Ambuj Kumar Mishra , Umesh Kumar Sharma , Vipin Chandra Dubey , Anirudh Pradhan

The null geodesics that describe photon orbits in the spacetime of a rotating electrically charged black hole (Kerr-Newman) are solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. We derive elegant closed form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 G. V. Kraniotis

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

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

Gravitational lensing is a powerful concept in the Astrophysics to study black holes. The gravitational field of a massive object like a galaxy or black hole bends and magnifies the light from a distant object behind it. The Schwarzchild…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Amritansh Mehrotra , R. Kanishka

We study slowly rotating traversable wormholes embedded in realistic galactic dark matter halos, including Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW), Bose-Einstein Condensate (Thomas-Fermi, TF), and pseudo-isothermal (PI) profiles. Using the Teo-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Abdelghani Errehymy , Abdullah Guvendi , Semra Gurtas Dogan , Omar Mustafa

We investigate the solution of Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime within the framework of Modified Gravity (MOG). We show that besides the null-geodesic treatment of photons in MOG, using Maxwell's equations and covariant coupling with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 S. Rahvar , J. W. Moffat

Gravitational lensing caused by the gravitational field of massive objects has been studied and acknowledged for a long period of time. In this paper, however, we propose a different mechanism where the bending of light stems from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-21 O. Gurtug , M. Mangut , M. Halilsoy

Gravitational lensing by a spiral galaxy occurs when the line-of-sight to a background quasar passes within a few kpc from the center of the galactic disk. Since galactic disks are rich in neutral hydrogen, the quasar spectrum will likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Abraham Loeb

The deflection of light in the strong field limit is an important test for alternative theories of gravity. However, solutions for the metric that allow for analytic computations are not always available. We implement a hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Javier Chagoya , C. Ortiz , Benito Rodríguez , Armando A. Roque

In this paper, we study the observational appearance of the asymmetric thin-shell wormhole (ATW) in Horndeski theory by employing the ray-tracing method. We first calculate the effective potential and null geodesic of the ATW, and then we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhi Luo , Hao Yu , Jin Li

In this work we introduced a new proposal to study the gravitational lensing theory by spherical lenses, starting from its surface mass density $\Sigma(x)$ written in terms of a decreasing function $f$ of a dimensionless coordinate $x$ on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Roger Hurtado , Leonardo Castaneda , Juan M. Tejeiro