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In this work, we probe the weak gravitational lensing by a static spherically symmetric black hole in view of $f(R)$ gravity in the background of the non-plasma medium (vacuum). We provide a discussion on a light ray in a static black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Surajit Mandal

The Gibbons-Werner method for calculating deflection angles using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and optical/Jacobi metric has become widely popular in recent years. Werner extended this method to stationary spacetimes, where the optical/Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Zonghai Li

We found strong similarities between the gravitational lensing and the conventional optical lensing. The similarities imply a graded refractive index description of the light deflection in gravitational field. We got a general approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Xing-Hao Ye , Qiang Lin

One crucial problem in relativistic astrophysics is that of the nature of black hole candidates. It is usually assumed that astrophysical black holes are described by the Schwarzschild or Kerr space-times; however, there is no direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 J. A. Arrieta-Villamizar , J. M. Velásquez-Cadavid , O. M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres

The Kerr spacetime is one of the most widely known solutions to Einstein's vacuum field equations and is commonly used to describe a black hole with mass $m$ and spin $a$. Astrophysical observations in the electromagnetic spectrum as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Torben C. Frost

The theory of gravitational lensing has revealed many generic and fundamental properties of compact objects like black holes and wormholes. In this article, we utilize a recent formulation to compute the quantum effects on the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-11 Kimet Jusufi , Farook Rahaman , Ayan Banerjee

By using the comoving distance, we derive an analytic expression for the optical depth of gravitational lensing, which depends on the redshift to the source and the cosmological model characterized by the cosmic mass density parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu

The theory of gravitational lensing is reviewed from a spacetime perspective, without quasi-Newtonian approximations. More precisely, the review covers all aspects of gravitational lensing where light propagation is described in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-19 Volker Perlick

In this article, we study the weak gravitational lensing in the background of regular, static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions of Einstein's standard general relativity coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics. The weak deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar , Hasrat Hussian Shah , Pankaj Balo , Farook Rahaman

We investigate the predictions of Einsteinian Cubic Gravity (ECG) for the lensing effects due to supermassive black holes at the center of Milky Way and other galaxies. Working in the context of spherical symmetry, we obtain the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-01 Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

General relativistic deflection of light by mass, dipole, and quadrupole moments of gravitational field of a moving massive planet in the Solar system is derived in the approximation of the linearized Einstein equations. All terms of order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-05 Sergei Kopeikin , Valeri Makarov

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

It is shown that Einstein-Rosen bridges (wormholes) hypothetical objects that topologically connect separate locations in the Universe can be static solutions of the Einstein equations. The corresponding equations for bridges are reduced to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shatskiy

The C-metric is a solution to Einstein's vacuum field equation that describes an accelerating black hole. In this paper we discuss the propagation of light rays and the resulting lensing features in this metric. We first solve the lightlike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Torben C. Frost , Volker Perlick

In this paper, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing within the space-time framework of traversable wormholes, focusing on the combined effects of a global monopole and a cosmic string. Specifically, we examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı , Ahmad Al-Badawi

We investigate the gravitational lensing scenario due to Schwarzschild-like black hole surrounded by quintessence (Kiselev black hole). We work for the special case of Kiselev black hole where we take the state parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Azka Younas , Mubasher Jamil , Sebastian Bahamonde , Saqib Hussain

We investigate a static, spherically symmetric black hole solution surrounded by a cloud of strings and immersed in an electromagnetic universe. By deriving the event horizon from the lapse function, we demonstrate that both the string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı

In this letter we apply the Gauss--Bonnet theorem (GB) to calculate the deflection angle by a quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole in the weak limit approximation. In particular we calculate the light deflection by two types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-09 Kimet Jusufi

A new theory of gravity called Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity was recently proposed by Ba\~{n}ados and Ferreira. This theory leads to some exciting new features, such as free of cosmological singularities. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-29 Shao-Wen Wei , Ke Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing and shadow properties of the black hole in the context of bumblebee gravity, characterized by a global monopole charge $\kappa\eta^2$ and a Lorentz symmetry breaking parameter $\gamma$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Bijendra Kumar Vishvakarma , Shubham Kala