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Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), with their long-lived and highly relativistic orbital evolution, can probe strong-field spacetime geometry and provide an important means to test general relativity. In this work, we investigate EMRI…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Sheng Long , Zhong-wu Xia , Huajie Gong , Zhoujian Cao , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

In this article, we extend the strong deflection limit to calculate the deflection angle for a class of geometries which are asymptotically locally flat. In particular, we study the deflection of light in the surroundings of spherical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Fabrizio Canfora , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

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

We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole, focusing on constraints on photons corresponding to different shadow boundaries. The photons are related to different orbital ranges and impact parameter values, creating a map of the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlık

In this paper, we present a rotating de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley black hole with a positive cosmological constant in massive gravity, achieved by applying a modified Newman-Janis algorithm. The black hole exhibits stable orbits of constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Mohsen Fathi , J. R. Villanueva , Norman Cruz

We present a phenomenological study of rotating, charged black holes in Einstein gravity coupled to a traceless (conformal) matter sector formed by ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics and a Kalb-Ramond two-form that spontaneously breaks local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Yassine Sekhmani , Kuantay Boshkayev , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Sunil K. Maurya , Mohamed Altanji , Ainur Urazalina

Within the framework of the spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking, we consider a metric--affine generalization of the gravitational sector of the Standard--Model Extension (SME), including the Lorentz--violating (LV) coefficients $u$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 A. A. Araújo Filho , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

The null geodesics that describe photon orbits in the spacetime of a rotating electrically charged black hole (Kerr-Newman) are solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. We derive elegant closed form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 G. V. Kraniotis

We consider spherically symmetric and static charged black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell gravities in general $D\ge 5$ dimensions and study their photon spheres and black hole shadows. We show that they all satisfy the sequence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-10 Liang Ma , H. Lu

The null geodesic equations that describe motion of photons in Kerr spacetime are solved exactly in the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. The exact solution for the deflection angle for generic light orbits (i.e. non-polar,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-08 G. V. Kraniotis

It has been shown in the literature that the event horizon of an extremal asymptotically flat Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is also a stable photon sphere. We further clarify this statement and give a general proof that this holds for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-31 Fech Scen Khoo , Yen Chin Ong

This paper investigates a new black hole solution within the framework of bumblebee gravity, incorporating non-commutative corrections parameterized by $\Theta$ and implemented through the Moyal twist $\partial_r \wedge \partial_\theta$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo , Yuxuan Shi , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The gravitational deflection of test particles including light, due to a radially moving Kerr-Newman black hole with an arbitrary constant velocity being perpendicular to its angular momentum, is investigated. In harmonic coordinates, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

In this work the Bumblebee model for spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking is considered in the context of spherically symmetric astrophysical bodies. A discussion of the modified equations of motion is presented and constraints on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-23 Jorge Páramos , Gonçalo Guiomar

In this work, the interior spacetime of stars is built in a Lorentz symmetry breaking model called bumblebee gravity. Firstly, we calculated the modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation in this context of modified gravity. Then we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-13 Juliano C. S. Neves , Fernando G. Gardim

The bright ring-like structures observed in the images of M87* and SgrA* captured by the Event Horizon Telescope strongly support the validity of general relativity. Lensed images of the emission region, often referred to as photon rings in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick

The motion of photons around the Kerr-Newman-dS black hole surrounded by quintessence and a cloud of strings is investigated. The existence of the Carter constant leads to that of unstable circular photon orbits on a two-dimensional plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Wen-Fu Cao , Wen-Fang Liu , Xin Wu

The vacuum solutions arising from a spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry due to the acquisition of a vacuum expectation value by a vector field are derived. These include the purely radial Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Orfeu Bertolami , Jorge Paramos

In this paper, we explore the perturbative renormalization and study the classical dynamics of the bumblebee model coupled to quadratic gravity, a theoretical setting that allows the violation of Lorentz symmetry. Such a violation arises…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 R. B. Alfaia , Willian Carvalho , A. C. Lehum , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

In this work, we investigate the scattering and absorption of spin 0 particles for electrically charged black holes in two gravity models with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. The first one is the so-called bumblebee model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 F. M. Belchior