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The recent years witnessed a surge of interest of the lensing of the black holes arising from general as well as other modified theories of gravity due to the experimental data available from the EHT results. The EHT may open a new door…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Md Sabir Ali , Shagun Kaushal

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

We study the gravitational lensing scenario where the lens is a spherically symmetric charged black hole (BH) surrounded by quintessence matter. The null geodesic equations in the curved background of the black hole are derived. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-21 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing by some black hole classes within the non-linear electrodynamics in weak field limits. First, we calculate an optical geometry of the non-linear electrodynamics black hole then we use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 H. El Moumni , K. Masmar , Ali Övgün

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

We study gravitational lensing by a recently proposed black hole solution in Loop Quantum Gravity. We highlight the fact that the quantum gravity corrections to the Schwarzschild metric in this model evade the `mass suppression' effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-16 Satyabrata Sahu , Kinjalk Lochan , D. Narasimha

It is a long-standing open question if a gravitomagnetic charge, the gravitational analogon to a hypothetical magnetic charge in electrodynamics, exists in nature. It naturally occurs in certain exact solutions to Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Torben C. Frost

In this letter, we have investigated the deflection angle of light by wormholes using a new geometrical method known as Gibbons-Werner method (GW). In particular we have calculated the deflection angle of light in the weak limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Kimet Jusufi

In this research, we use the Gibbons-Werner method (Gauss-Bonnet theorem) on the optical geometry of a black hole and wormhole, extending the calculation of the weak gravitational lensing within the Maxwell's fish eye-like profile and dark…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ali Övgün

The potential of the gravitational microlensing inside our Galaxy for testing the Einstein formula for the gravitational light deflection is discussed. For this purpose, the lens mapping is modified by introducing parameter eps, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 A. N. Alexandrov , V. M. Sliusar , V. I. Zhdanov

In this paper, we study the weak gravitational deflection angle of relativistic massive particles by the Kerr-like black hole in the bumblebee gravity model. In particular, we focus on weak field limits and calculate the deflection angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-23 Zonghai Li , Ali Övgün

Recent observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration provide convincing realistic evidence for the existence of black hole rotation. From a phenomenological perspective, a recently proposed stable rotating regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Qi Sun , Qi-Quan Li , Peng-Fei Duan

Both massless light ray and objects with nonzero mass experience trajectory bending in a gravitational field. In this work the bending of trajectories of massive objects in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the corresponding gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Xionghui Liu , Nan Yang , Junji Jia

A new geometric method to determine the deflection of light in the equatorial plane of the Kerr solution is presented, whose optical geometry is a surface with a Finsler metric of Randers type. Applying the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. C. Werner

It is known that a relative translational motion between the deflector and the observer affects gravitational lensing. In this paper, a lens equation is obtained to describe such effects on actual lensing observables. Results can be easily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno

We reexamine the light deflection by an Ellis wormhole. The bending angle as a function of the ratio between the impact parameter and the throat radius of the wormhole is obtained in terms of a complete elliptic integral of the first kind.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-20 Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

We investigate the gravitational lensing of a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole with a global monopole at finite distances. In this asymptotically nonflat spacetime, the deflection angle of light is decomposed into two parts: the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Yi Lu , Xiao-Yin Pan , Meng-Yun Lai , Qing-hai Wang

This paper has three parts. In first step we use modified scalar tensor vector Brans Dicke gravity \cite{GH0} to obtain metric solution of a spherically symmetric static black hole via perturbation method which asymptotically behaves as…

General Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Hossein Ghaffarnejad

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

We revisit the gravitational lensing of light or gravitational waves by Schwarzschild black hole in geometric optics. Instead of a single massless particle, we investigate the collective behavior of a congruence of light/gravitational rays,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Zhao Li , Xiao Guo , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao