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We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

Based on the complexity equals action (CA) and complexity equals volume (CV) conjectures, we investigate the holographic complexity of a slowly accelerating Kerr-AdS black hole in the bulk Einstein gravity theory which is dual to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Ming Zhang , Chaoxi Fang , Jie Jiang

We study the strong gravitational lensing on the equatorial plane of a quasi-Kerr compact object with arbitrary quadrupole moments which can be used to model the super-massive central object of the galaxy. We find that, when the quadrupolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Changqing Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In this thesis we study aspects of strong-field gravitational lensing by black holes in general relativity, with a particular focus on the role of integrability and chaos in geodesic motion. We first investigate binary black hole shadows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Jake O. Shipley

On a manifold with boundary, the constraint algebra of general relativity may acquire a central extension, which can be computed using covariant phase space techniques. When the boundary is a (local) Killing horizon, a natural set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

Generic extensions of the standard model predict the existence of ultralight bosonic degrees of freedom. Several ongoing experiments are aimed at detecting these particles or constraining their mass range. Here we show that massive vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti , Akihiro Ishibashi

We analyze quasinormal modes, grey-body factors, and absorption cross-sections of a massive scalar field in four-dimensional Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet black-hole spacetimes within a stability-constrained coupling window. High-order WKB-Pad\'e…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu

We provide a simple and new induction based treatment of the problem of distinguishing cusp forms from the growth of the Fourier coefficients of modular forms. Our approach gives the best possible ranges of the weights for this problem, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Soumya Das

It is well established that black holes reside in the central regions of virtually all types of known galaxies. Recent observational and numerical studies however challenge this picture, suggesting that intermediate-mass black holes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Thibaut L. François , Christian M. Boily , Jonathan Freundlich , Simon Rozier , Karina Voggel

The No Hair theorem in classical general relativity predicts that rotating black holes are specified by the Kerr metric, which is uniquely identified by the mass and spin. However, as a pioneering study beyond general relativity, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhen Li

We consider Loop Quantum Gravity(LQG) motivated $4D$ polymerized black hole and study shadow, quasinormal modes, and Hawking radiation. We obtain analytical expressions of photonsphere radius and shadow radius and study their qualitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Sohan Kumar Jha

In the search for the nature of dark energy most cosmological probes measure simple functions of the expansion rate. While powerful, these all involve roughly the same dependence on the dark energy equation of state parameters, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric V. Linder

The possibility that stellar mass primordial black holes may make up at least a significant fraction of dark matter has recently received much attention, partly as a result of gravitational wave observations, but more specifically from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 M. R. S. Hawkins

One of the most important and actual issues in relativistic astrophysics is testing gravity theories and obtaining constraint values for the parameters of black holes using observational data. In this research, we aimed to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Saeed Ullah Khan , Javlon Rayimbaev , Furkat Sarikulov , Ozodbek Abdurakhmonov

Black holes below Chandrasekhar mass limit (1.4 $M_{\odot}$) can not be produced via any standard stellar evolution. Recently, gravitational wave experiments have also discovered unusually low mass black holes whose origin is yet to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Anupam Ray

Quantum black holes (BHs), thought of as an excited multilevel system, can be effectively modelled by replacing an event horizon with a partially reflective membrane. This emergent feature affects their interaction with hosting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Soumodeep Mitra , Sumanta Chakraborty , Rodrigo Vicente , Justin C. Feng

Soft hairs are an intrinsic infrared feature of a black hole, which may also affect near-horizon physics. In this work, we study some of the subtleties surrounding one of the primary observables with which we can study their effects in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Feng-Li Lin , Avani Patel , Jason Payne

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects and optical appearances around a spherically symmetric regular black hole, whose metric is derived from a non-singular collapsing dust ball model in asymptotically safe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Xiao-Jun Gao

Forthcoming projects such as the DES, a JDEM, and LSST, aim to measure weak lensing shear correlations with unprecedented accuracy. Weak lensing observables are sensitive to both the distance-redshift relation and the growth of structure in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner

The mechanism by which the supermassive black holes that power bright quasars at high redshift form remains unknown. One possibility is that ... the monolithic collapse of a massive protogalactic disc ... leads to the formation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-26 Warrick H. Ball