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We study strong gravitational lensing by a specific one-parameter extension of Kerr spacetime, a Kerr-like wormhole, characterized by a single parameter specifying the throat's location. We classify the roots of the radial potential derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-20 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

The problem of the possibility of observing a uniform sky glow through the throat of a Morris--Thorne wormhole by an observer located in another asymptotically flat space-time is considered. It is shown that an individual star has multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Mikhail A. Bugaev , Igor D. Novikov , Serge V. Repin , Polina S. Samorodskaya

The prospect of identifying wormholes by investigating the shadows of wormholes constitute a foremost source of insight into the evolution of compact objects and it is one of the essential problems in contemporary astrophysics. The nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Farook Rahaman , Ksh. Newton Singh , Rajibul Shaikh , Tuhina Manna , Somi Aktar

Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication (Abe, ApJ, 725 (2010) 787), we study the gravitational microlensing effects of the Ellis wormhole in the weak-field limit. First, we find a suitable coordinate transformation, such that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yukiharu Toki , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada , Fumio Abe

We investigate gravitational lensing by a primary photon sphere which is a sphere filled with unstable circular light orbits, and by a secondary photon sphere on a wormhole throat in a black-bounce spacetime which is suggested in [F. S. N.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Naoki Tsukamoto

We numerically construct a symmetric wormhole solution in pure Einstein gravity supported by a massive $3$-form field with a potential that contains a quartic self-interaction term. The wormhole spacetimes have only a single throat and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Che-Yu Chen , Xiao Yan Chew , Yen Chin Ong , Dong-han Yeom

We consider a class of stationary and axisymmetric wormhole spacetimes that is closely related to, but not identical with, the class of Teo wormholes. We fix a point $p$ (observation event) and a timelike curve $\gamma$ (worldline of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Mourad Halla , Volker Perlick

In [J. Blazquez-Salcedo, C. Knoll, E. Radu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) no.10, 101102] asymptotically flat traversable wormhole solutions were obtained in the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory without using phantom matter. The normalizable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We numerically construct images of thin accretion disks in rotating wormhole backgrounds, for the Kerr-like and the Teo class of wormholes. Our construction is illustrated by two methods, a semi-analytic scheme where separated null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Suvankar Paul , Rajibul Shaikh , Pritam Banerjee , Tapobrata Sarkar

We present rotating wormhole solutions in General Relativity, which are supported by a phantom scalar field. These solutions evolve from the static Ellis wormhole, when the throat is set into rotation. As the rotational velocity increases,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

This brief review discusses the existence conditions of wormhole throats and wormholes as global configurations in general relativity under the assumptions of cylindrical and axial symmetries. It is pointed out, in particular, that wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

Asymmetric thin-shell wormholes from two traversable Morris-Thorne wormhole spacetimes, with identical shape but different redshift functions, are constructed. Energy density of the thin-shell wormhole derives its power from a Morris-Thorne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-17 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We present 3D numerical-relativity evolutions of the unstable Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole using GRTeclyn, starting from exact isotropic initial data for the coupled Einstein-phantom-scalar system. With a flat initial lapse (alpha=1) and full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Nikita M. Shirokov

The silhouette of a black hole having a critical curve (an unstable bound photon orbit) when illuminated by an optically thin accretion disk whose emission is confined to the equatorial plane shows a distinctive central brightness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

We investigate the radial perturbations of Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes ($\mathrm{l}=0$) in a slowly rotating background expanded up to second order in rotation. We find indications that simple wormhole solutions such as Ellis-Bronnikov in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 Bahareh Azad , Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz

We investigate a novel gravitational configuration formed by a massless real phantom field and an axion scalar field, minimally coupled to gravity. This system describes an Ellis-type wormhole situated at the center of an axion star. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Chen-Hao Hao , Yong-Qiang Wang , Jieci Wang

Investigations of shadows of astrophysical entities constitute a major source of insight into the evolution of compact objects. Such effects depend on the nature of the compact object and arise on account of the strong gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Muhammed Amir , Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

Recently, two of us have found numerically rotating Ellis wormholes as solutions of 4-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a phantom field. In this paper, we investigate possible observational signatures to identify similar objects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-19 Menglei Zhou , Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Cosimo Bambi , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We investigate the shadow properties in a recently proposed geometry of a rotating wormhole under realistic astrophysical conditions, particularly in the presence of a cold and non magnetized plasma environment surrounding the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Pabitra Gayen , Ratna Koley

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev