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We study gravitational lensing by $k-n$ generalized black-bounce space-times both in regimes of weak and strong field approximations. These metrics interpolate between regular black holes and one-way or traversable wormholes. First, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 C. Furtado , A. L. A. Moreira , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio

We develop an iterative approach to gravitational lensing theory based on approximate solutions of the null geodesic equations. The approach can be employed in any space-time which is ``close'' to a space-time in which the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas P. Kling , Ezra T. Newman , Alejandro Perez

Recent advances, including gravitational wave detections and imaging of black hole shadows, have strongly validated general relativity. Nevertheless, ongoing cosmological observations suggest potential limitations of general relativity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Ali Övgün , Mohsen Fathi

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

Black holes and other compact objects are powerful tools to observationally test Einsteins theory of General Relativity. We develop raytracing code to create visual images of compact objects that are solutions of Einsteins field equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 Frank Imbens

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

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is currently one of the leading techniques for studying the inner part of accretion disks around black holes, measuring black hole spins, and even testing fundamental physics in strong gravitational fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-14 Swarnim Shashank , Shafqat Riaz , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Cosimo Bambi

Strong gravitational lensing is a unique observational tool for studying the dark and luminous mass distribution both within and between galaxies. Given the presence of substructures, current strong lensing observations demand more complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Luca Biggio , Georgios Vernardos , Aymeric Galan , Austin Peel

This thesis contributes to the field of gravitational lensing (GL) and observational cosmology. We discuss the use of gravitational lensing as a tool in search of exotic objects in the Universe. In the next chapter the concordance of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 Margarita Safonova

In this thesis we study aspects of strong-field gravitational lensing by black holes in general relativity, with a particular focus on the role of integrability and chaos in geodesic motion. We first investigate binary black hole shadows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Jake O. Shipley

This paper aims to investigate the astrophysical applicability of the electrically and magnetically charged black hole solutions obtained in a model of nonlinear electrodynamics proposed by Kruglov (Ann. Phys. Berlin 2017, 529, 170073).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 O. Gurtug , M. Mangut

In this paper, we briefly present RELXILL_NK, the first and currently only readily available model of the relativistic reflection spectrum of black hole accretion disks that includes non-Kerr solutions for the black hole spacetime, thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing around the static and spherically symmetric DD black holes, which we recently derived as perturbations of the Schwarzschild geometry within the revised Deser-Woodard theory of nonlocal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Rocco D'Agostino , Vittorio De Falco

Deep neural networks have been shown to perform well in many classical machine learning problems, especially in image classification tasks. However, researchers have found that neural networks can be easily fooled, and they are surprisingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Huaxia Wang , Chun-Nam Yu

We present a Gaussian kernel loss function and training algorithm for convolutional neural networks that can be directly applied to both distance metric learning and image classification problems. Our method treats all training features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Benjamin J. Meyer , Ben Harwood , Tom Drummond

Gravitational lensing has been identified as a powerful tool to address fundamental problems in astrophysics at different scales, ranging from exoplanet identification to dark energy and dark matter characterization in cosmology. Image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Andrés A. Plazas

We study the gravitational lensing scenario where the lens is a spherically symmetric charged black hole (BH) surrounded by quintessence matter. The null geodesic equations in the curved background of the black hole are derived. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-21 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Sebastian Bahamonde , Mubasher Jamil

Recent observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration provide convincing realistic evidence for the existence of black hole rotation. From a phenomenological perspective, a recently proposed stable rotating regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Qi Sun , Qi-Quan Li , Peng-Fei Duan

We revisit the gravitational lensing of light or gravitational waves by Schwarzschild black hole in geometric optics. Instead of a single massless particle, we investigate the collective behavior of a congruence of light/gravitational rays,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Zhao Li , Xiao Guo , Tan Liu , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao

In this paper, we study massless braneworld black holes as gravitational lenses. We find the weak and the strong deflection limits for the deflection angle, from which we calculate the positions and magnifications of the images. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra