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In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

The ambition of the present work is to highlight the phenomena of strong gravitational lensing and deflection angle for the photons coupling with Weyl tensor in a Kiselev black hole. Here, we have extended the prior work of Chen and Jing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 G. Abbas , Asif Mahmood , M. Zubair

Schwarzschild black holes can produce strong gravitational lensing. The relativistic images are produced due to bending of light around the black hole. We propose a model equation to study the strong gravitational lensing. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-17 Tushar Kanti Dey

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

We analyze gravitational lensing and their cast images from thin-disks in shadow observations of a family of spherically symmetric black hole solutions previously derived within the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Such black holes depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 David J. Patiño Pomares , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

For the short hairs that have a significant impact only near the event horizon, studying their strong gravitational lensing effects is of great significance for revealing the properties of these hairs. In this study, we systematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

In this work, we theoretically investigate strong gravitational lensing effects and evaluate various lensing observables of a static, spherically symmetric solution in the context of effective quantum gravity (EQG). Among the three types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Suvankar Paul

We analyse strong gravitational field time delay for photons coupled to the Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole. By making use of the method of strong deflection limit, we find that these time delays between relativistic images are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Xu Lu , Feng-Wei Yang , Yi Xie

If it is hypothesised that there is no dark matter then some alternative gravitational theory must take the place of general relativity (GR) on the largest scales. Dynamical measurements can be used to investigate the nature of such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

We investigate gravitational lensing by \textit{special} Buchdahl inspired metric with the Buchdahl parameter $\tilde{k}$. In strong deflection limit, we derive the deflection angle analytically for the light rays that diverge as photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Shafia Maryam , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zoe C S Chan

Gravitational lensing - the deflection of light rays by gravitating matter - has become a major tool in the armoury of the modern cosmologist. Proposed nearly a hundred years ago as a key feature of Einstein's theory of General Relativity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis

We study the deflection and gravitational lensing (GL) of both timelike and null signals in the equatorial plane of arbitrary stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes in the strong deflection limit. Our approach employs a perturbative method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Yujie Duan , Siyan Lin , Junji Jia

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we studied the properties of strong field gravitational lensing in the deformed H\v{o}rava-Lifshitz black hole and obtained the angular position and magnification of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-13 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Strong gravitational lensing occurs when photons pass through the vicinity of a black hole. We investigate this phenomenon in the context of a gravitational-wave event, specifically when a black hole is settling into its final state. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhen Zhong , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen

This paper investigates the use of gravitational time delays of macro-lenses to constrain a possible photon mass. The time delay between the 2 compact images of a source of massive photons is computed. Explicit expressions are given for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 J-F. Glicenstein

Recently, a non-trivial $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as $\alpha/(D-4)$, was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shafqat Ul Islam , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the gravitational lensing influence of a massive object in a dark matter halo, using a simple model of a point mass embedded in a spherical Navarro--Frenk--White halo. Building on the analysis of critical curves and caustics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Michal Karamazov , David Heyrovsky

The light deflection under a strong gravitational field, referred to as strong gravitational lensing, provides a powerful probe of spacetime geometry. Besides, laboratory analogue models are employed to study the effects of curved spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Suting Ju , Jingxuan Zhang , Li-Gang Wang

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

In the present work we study numerically quasi-equatorial lensing by the charged, stationary, axially-symmetric Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole in the strong deflection limit. In this approximation we compute the magnification and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev