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In this work, we theoretically investigate strong gravitational lensing effects and evaluate various lensing observables of a static, spherically symmetric solution in the context of effective quantum gravity (EQG). Among the three types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Suvankar Paul

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

The effect of stars on the lensing properties of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center is similar to the effect of planets on microlensing by a star. We show that the dense stellar cluster around SgrA* increases by factors of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tal Alexander , Abraham Loeb

The dark matter halo has non-negligible effects on the gravitational lensing of supermassive black hole in the galaxy center. Our work presents a study on the time-delay of light in gravitational lensing of black holes enclosed by dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su

We investigate in detail the weak-field gravitational lensing of a relativistic neutral massive particle induced by a regular black-bounce-Schwarzschild black hole proposed by Simpson and Visser. Starting with the calculation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Guansheng He , Yi Xie , Chunhua Jiang , Wenbin Lin

We investigate the gravitational lensing effect around a spherically symmetric black hole, whose metric is obtained from the Einstein field equation with electric charge and perfect-fluid dark matter contributing to its energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-13 Xiao-Jun Gao , Xiao-kun Yan , Yihao Yin , Ya-Peng Hu

The strong gravitational lensing of a regular and rotating magnetic black hole in non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is studied. We find that, with the increase of any characteristic parameters of this black hole, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Zhipeng Peng , Qihong Huang

The EHT collaboration released in 2019 the first horizon-scale images of a black hole accretion flow, opening a novel route for plasma physics comprehension and gravitational tests. Although the present unresolved images deeply depend on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 I. Urso , F. H. Vincent , M. Wielgus , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

Recently, a non-trivial $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as $\alpha/(D-4)$, was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shafqat Ul Islam , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The gravitational lensing of supermassive black holes surrounded by dark matter halo has attracted a great number of interests in recent years. However, many studies employed simplified dark matter density models, which makes it very hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yi-Gao Liu , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

We examine a class of charged black holes in scalar-tensor gravity as gravitational lenses. We find the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, from which we obtain the positions and the magnifications of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-01 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

In this work we calculate the angular deflection of light in the strong field limit in two spacetimes which were previously studied within the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity (EiBI), namely, a black hole and a wormhole, both with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-26 C. Furtado , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio , A. R. Soares

The photon sphere defines the unstable circular orbit of photons in a black hole spacetime. Photons emitted by a source located inside the photon sphere can be gravitationally lensed by the black hole and have time delays when reaching the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Yuan-Xing Gao

We systematically examine the properties of null geodesics around an electrically charged, asymptotically flat black hole in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, varying the electric charge of black hole and the coupling constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hajime Sotani , Umpei Miyamoto

The gravitational field of supermassive black holes is able to strongly bend light rays emitted by nearby sources. When the deflection angle exceeds $\pi$, gravitational lensing can be analytically approximated by the so-called strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Bozza , G. Scarpetta

We investigate how central black holes (BHs) inhabited in galactic dark halos could affect strong gravitational lensing. The distribution of integral lensing probability with image separations are calculated for quasars of redshift 1.5 by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Da-Ming Chen

The light deflection under a strong gravitational field, referred to as strong gravitational lensing, provides a powerful probe of spacetime geometry. Besides, laboratory analogue models are employed to study the effects of curved spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Suting Ju , Jingxuan Zhang , Li-Gang Wang

We investigate gravitational lensing effects of spherically symmetric black holes in Einstein Quartic Gravity (EQG). Using an approximate analytic solution obtained by continued fraction methods we consider the predictions of EQG for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 H. Khodabakhshi , Robert B. Mann

There are now multiple direct probes of the region near black hole horizons, including direct imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). As a result, it is now of considerable interest to identify what aspects of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-06 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick , Boris Georgiev

Gravitational lens models with negative convergence(surface mass density projected onto the lens plane) inspired by modified gravity theories, exotic matter and energy have been recently discussed in such a way that a static and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Koji Izumi , Chisaki Hagiwara , Koki Nakajima , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada