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In this work we investigate gravitational lensing effect in strong field region around a dilaton black holes in an anti de Sitter (ADS) space. We also analyse the dependence of the radius of the photon sphere and deflection angle on dilaton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Tanwi Ghosh , Soumitra Sengupta

We model the light-curves from radiation-driven clouds near an accreting black hole. Taking into account the multiple images due to strong gravitational lensing, we find that sharp spikes can significantly enhance the observed flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-16 V. Karas

In this article, we present an overview of the new developments in problems of the plasma influence on the effects of gravitational lensing, complemented by pieces of new material and relevant discussions. Deflection of light in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Retrolensing is a gravitational lensing effect in which light emitted by a background source is deflected by a black hole and redirected toward the observer after undergoing nearly complete loops around the black hole. In this context, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 L. C. N. Santos , F. M. da Silva , C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra

Black hole lensing and gravitational waves are, respectively, closely dependent of the property of the lens and radiation source. In this letter, a universal relation between them is established for a rotating black hole acting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing phenomenon in the strong field regime for a regular, charged, static, non-linear black hole having a electrodynamics source. We have obtained the angle of deflection and compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 Tuhina Manna , Farook Rahaman , Sabiruddin Molla , Jhumpa Bhadra , Hasrat Hussain Shah

We have investigated the strong gravitational lensing for the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. We find that in the four-dimensional black hole spacetime the equation of motion of the photons depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-05 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We discuss strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging of massive black hole binaries in the context of the LISA mission. Detection of multiple events would provide invaluable information on competing theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 M. Sereno , A. Sesana , A. Bleuler , Ph. Jetzer , M. Volonteri , M. C. Begelman

In this paper, we study a regular Bardeen black hole as a gravitational lens. We find the strong deflection limit for the deflection angle, from which we obtain the positions and magnifications of the relativistic images. As an example, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-29 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

Black holes are considered among the most fascinating objects that exist in our universe, since in the classical formalism nothing, even no light, can escape from their vicinity due to gravity. The gravitational potential causes the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

Is it possible to find imprints of a black hole ringdown through gravitational lensing? To address this question, we formulate an analytic description of weak-field and strong-deflection lensing of light in a time-dependent, perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Reggie C. Pantig

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We consider a Kerr black hole acting as a gravitational deflector within the geometrical optics, and point source approximations. The Kerr black hole gravitational lens geometry consisting of an observer and a source located far away and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Samuel E. Vázquez , Ernesto P. Esteban

We investigate the gravitational lensing of massless particles around a Kerr-Sen black hole immersed in a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma distributions are considered in this study to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Sayanika Modak , Hemwati Nandan , Amare Abebe

In the cold dark matter scenario, dark matter halos are assembled hierarchically from smaller subunits. Some of these subunits are disrupted during the merging process, whereas others survive temporarily in the form of subhalos. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Zackrisson , T. Riehm

Accelerating black holes, connected to cosmic strings could evolve to supermassive black holes. However, if they are going to take part in structure formation and resides at the center of galaxies, their acceleration should be small. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

Gravitational lensing is a well known phenomenon predicted by the General Theory of Relativity. It is now a well-developed observational technique in astronomy and is considered to be a fundamental tool for acquiring information about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. De Paolis , A. Geralico , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

We study the strong gravitational lensing due to the Kerr black holes with angular momentum $a$ and the Kerr-Newman black holes with additional charge $Q$. We first derive the analytical expressions of the deflection angles of light rays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-21 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

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