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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

The mass of an astrophysical object can be estimated by the amount of gravitational lensing of another object that it causes. To arrive at the estimation however, one assumes the validity of the inverse square law of gravity, or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Saurya Das , Sourav Sur

We propose a novel concept of astrophysical mirroring in the schwarzschild framework, which emerges as a direct consequence of gravitational lensing effects occurring in the immediate vicinity of extremely dense massive objects within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Bikramarka S Choudhury , Aritra Sanyal , Md Khalid Hossain , Farook Rahaman

Gravitational lensing deflects light. A single lens deflector can only shear images, but cannot induce rotations. Multiple lens planes can induce rotations. Such rotations can be observed in quadruply imaged sources, and can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Ue-Li Pen , Shude Mao

The statistics of gravitational lensing can provide us with a very powerful probe of the mass distribution of matter in the universe. By comparing predicted strong lensing probabilities with observations, we can test the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang

We provide a discussion on a light ray in a charged black hole solution in massive gravity. To serve the purpose, we exploit the optical geometry of the black hole solution and find the Gaussian curvature in weak gravitational lensing.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Surajit Mandal , Yerlan Myrzakulov , Kairat Myrzakulov

In this work, we investigate wormhole solutions through the utilization of gravitational decoupling, employing the Minimal Geometric Deformation (MGD) procedure within the framework of Trace-Free Gravity. We base our investigation on static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-17 Piyachat Panyasiripan , Narakorn Kaewkhao , Phongpichit Channuie , Ali Övgün

A new class of solutions which yields an $(n+1)$-dimensional spacetime with a longitudinal nonlinear magnetic field is introduced. These spacetimes have no curvature singularity and no horizon, and the magnetic field is non singular in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-05 M. H. Dehghani , S. H. Hendi

In this work we introduced a new proposal to study the gravitational lensing theory by spherical lenses, starting from its surface mass density $\Sigma(x)$ written in terms of a decreasing function $f$ of a dimensionless coordinate $x$ on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Roger Hurtado , Leonardo Castaneda , Juan M. Tejeiro

We derive the delay in travel time of photons due to the spin of a body both inside a rotating shell and outside a rotating body. We then show that this time delay by the spin of an astrophysical object might be detected in different images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignazio Ciufolini , Franco Ricci

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

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

In this work, gravitational lensing in the weak and strong field limits is investigated for black hole spacetime within the framework of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity. We employ the Ishihara et al. approach for weak lensing and adopt Bozza's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

Gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the matter distribution on subgalactic scales, which itself may contain important clues about the fundamental origins and properties of dark matter. Broadly speaking, two different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Charles R. Keeton , Leonidas A. Moustakas

A Simpson-Visser spacetime has two nonnegative parameters $a$ and $m$ and its metric is correspond with (i) a Schwarzschild metric for $a=0$ and $m\neq0$, (ii) a regular black hole metric for $a<2m$, (iii) a one-way traversable wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Naoki Tsukamoto

When light from a distant source object, like a galaxy or a supernova, travels towards us, it is deflected by massive objects that lie on its path. When the mass density of the deflecting object exceeds a certain threshold, multiple, highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Jenny Wagner

Compact objects with a light sphere such as black holes and wormholes can reflect light rays like a mirror. This gravitational lensing phenomenon is called retrolensing and it is an interesting tool to survey dark and compact objects with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto , Yungui Gong

We investigate the gravitational lensing properties of dark matter halos with Burkert profiles. We derive an analytic expression for the lens equation and use it to compute the magnification, impact parameter and image separations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yousin Park , Henry C. Ferguson

In the late 1980s, Morris and Thorne led in theoretical physics by creating solutions to wormholes and formulating the crucial requirements for safe traversability of wormholes. They found that exotic matter must meet the requirement $P_r +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 A. Errehymy , O. Donmez , A. Syzdykova , K. Myrzakulov , S. Muminov , A. Dauletov , J. Rayimbaev

In this work we extend the approach used in [Emanuel Gallo and Osvaldo M. Moreschi, Phys. Rev. D 83, 12 083007 (2011)] to the study of weak gravitational lensing in a plasma medium. First, we present expressions for the deflection angle and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , José R. Villanueva