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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

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

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 obtain a relation between the high-energy absorption cross section and the strong gravitational lensing for a static and spherically symmetric black hole. It provides us a possible way to measure the high-energy absorption…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-16 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Heng Guo

In the electromagnetic channel, chaotic gravitational lensing is a peculiar phenomenon in strong gravitational lensing. In this work, we analyze the properties and emergence of chaotic gravitational lensing in the Manko-Novikov black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Wen-Hao Wu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Cheng-Gang Shao , Wei-Liang Qian

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

There are now multiple direct probes of the region near black hole horizons, including direct imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). As a result, it is now of considerable interest to identify what aspects of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-06 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick , Boris Georgiev

The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries in the LISA band can be lensed. Wave-optics effects in the lensed signal are crucial when the Schwarzschild radius of the lens is smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Mesut Çalışkan , Lingyuan Ji , Roberto Cotesta , Emanuele Berti , Marc Kamionkowski , Sylvain Marsat

Noncommutative geometry may be a starting point to a quantum gravity. We study the influence of the spacetime noncommutative parameter on the strong field gravitational lensing in the noncommutative Schwarzschild black-hole spacetime and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Chikun Ding , Shuai Kang , Chang-Yong Chen , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Dark matter and dark energy dominate the behavior of our universe. The dark matter usually forms halo structures in large number of galaxies. Properties of dark matter halo can be revealed and understood from the gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Mi Zhou

In this study, we investigate the geodesic structure, gravitational lensing/mirroring phenomena, and scalar perturbations of deformed AdS-Schwarzschild black holes with global monopoles, incorporating both ordinary and phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

Latest advances in effective quantum gravity propose a quantum-corrected black hole solution that avoids Cauchy horizons. This paper studies the images of this black hole when illuminated by a static thin accretion disk and explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Shilong Huang , Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

We discuss the solution to Einstein's equations for a Lense-Thirring inspired metric describing a slowly rotating black hole coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. We show that different schemes of rotation for the black hole exist; they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Claus Lämmerzahl , Marco Maceda , Alfredo Macías

Gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to explore one of the deepest and most puzzling aspects of Einstein's theory: the existence of black holes. A plethora of ultracompact, horizonless objects have been proposed to arise in models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-04 Enrico Barausse , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Irina Dvorkin , Paolo Pani

Black hole shadow and gravitational lensing play important roles in testing gravitational theories in the strong field regime. As the first-order modifications from quantum gravity, the nonlocality can be manifested by black hole shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Qi-Ming Fu , Shao-Wen Wei , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu , Xin Zhang

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves provides a potential new probe of dark matter structures. In this work, we consider the microlensing effect on gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries induced by low-mass dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Malcolm Fairbairn , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen

The lensing properties of the Plummer model with a central point mass and external shear are derived, including the image multiplicities, critical curves and caustics. This provides a simple model for a flattened galaxy with a central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Werner , N. W. Evans

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigated the strong gravitational lensing in a Brane-World black hole, which means that the strong field limit coefficients and the deflection angle in this gravitational field are obtained.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 GuoPing Li , Biao Cao , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

Every astrophysical object (dark or not) is a gravitational lens, as well as a receiver/observer of the light from sources lensed by other objects in its neighborhood. For a given pair of source and lens, there is a thin on-axis tubelike…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yun Wang , Edwin L. Turner

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