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We explore the weak-field phenomenology of a compact star spacetime modified by quantum gravitational corrections derived from the effective field theoretical (EFT) approach by Calmet et al. [1]. These corrections, encoded in non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Ovgun , Gaetano Lambiase

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

We propose the novel method of ``gravitational imaging'' to detect and quantify luminous and dark-matter substructure in gravitational-lens galaxies. The method utilizes highly-magnified Einstein rings and arcs as sensitive probes of small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. V. E. Koopmans

In this work, the dynamics of a dust shell in an effective theory of spherically symmetric gravity containing quantum corrections from loop quantum gravity is investigated. To provide a consistent framework for including the dust, we go…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Hanno Sahlmann , Cong Zhang

In general relativity, an external observer cannot distinguish distinct internal structures between two spherically symmetric stars that have the same total mass $M$. However, when quantum corrections are taken into account, the external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Sojeong Cheong , Wontae Kim

The idea that gravity can act as a regulator of ultraviolet divergences is almost a century old and has inspired several approaches to quantum gravity. In fact, a minimum Planckian length can be shown to emerge from the nonlinear dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Roberto Casadio , Octavian Micu

In this paper, we investigate the properties of black holes within the framework of multi-fractional theories of gravity, focusing on the effects of q-derivatives and weighted derivatives. These modifications, which introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Reggie C. Pantig

In galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing, Einstein rings are generated when the lensing galaxy has an axisymmetric lensing potential and the source galaxy is aligned with its symmetry centre along the line of sight. Using a Taylor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jenny Wagner

We investigate gravitational lensing effects of spherically symmetric black holes in Einstein Quartic Gravity (EQG). Using an approximate analytic solution obtained by continued fraction methods we consider the predictions of EQG for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 H. Khodabakhshi , Robert B. Mann

Gravitational lens modeling is presented for the first discovered example of a three-component source for which each component is quadruply imaged. The lens is a massive galaxy member of the cluster Cl J0152.7-1357 at z ~ 0.84. Taking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Grillo , M. Lombardi , P. Rosati , G. Bertin , R. Gobat , R. Demarco , C. Lidman , V. Motta , M. Nonino

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

We discuss recent applications of Euclidean path integrals to the black hole information problem. In calculations with replica wormholes as the next-to-leading order correction to the Gibbons-Hawking saddlepoint, the radiation density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Xavier Calmet , Stephen D. H. Hsu

We study the imaging of a hairy black hole (HBH) in the Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory, where Einstein gravity is minimally coupled to a scalar potential $V(\phi)=-\Lambda \phi^4 + \mu \phi^2$ with $\Lambda$ and $\mu$ are constants. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Kok-Geng Lim , Xiao Yan Chew

A rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity was constructed by Brahma, Chen, and Yeom based on a nonrotating counterpart using the revised Newman-Janis algorithm recently. For such spacetime, we investigate the weak gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Yang Huang , Zhoujian Cao

Strong gravitational lensing gives access to the total mass distribution of galaxies. It can unveil a great deal of information about the lenses dark matter content when combined with the study of the lenses light profile. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Judith Biernaux , Pierre Magain , Clementine Hauret

We introduce a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an anisotropic fluid, describing asymptotically flat black holes with "hair" and a regular horizon. These spacetimes can describe the geometry of galaxies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vitor Cardoso , Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrea Maselli

We are developing a general, unified, and rigorous analytical framework for using gravitational lensing by compact objects to test different theories of gravity beyond the weak-deflection limit. In this paper we present the formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

Treating general relativity as an effective field theory, we compute the leading-order quantum corrections to the orbits and gravitational-wave emission of astrophysical compact binaries. These corrections are independent of the (unknown)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-28 Alexander C. Jenkins , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Mairi Sakellariadou

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

Recently, the image of a Schwarzschild black hole with an accretion disk has been revisited, and it showed that the "photon ring", defined as highly bent light rays that intersect the disk plane more than twice, is extremely narrow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang