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It is known that a relative translational motion between the deflector and the observer affects gravitational lensing. In this paper, a lens equation is obtained to describe such effects on actual lensing observables. Results can be easily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno

The lensing at large deflection angles caused by a Schwarzschild black hole for the case of a nonminimal coupling between gravitation and electromagnetism is examined. We show that photons follow an effective geometry, which displays an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Santiago E. P. Bergliaffa , Edson Elias de Souza Filho , Rodrigo Maier

We study the massless scalar wave propagation in the time-dependent Schwarzschild black hole background. We find that the Kruskal coordinate is an appropriate framework to investigate the time-dependent spacetime. A time-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Li-Hui Xue , Zai-Xiong Shen , Bin Wang , Ru-Keng Su

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes were recently computed in a generic effective-field-theory extension of general relativity with higher-derivative corrections. We exploit this breakthrough to perform the most complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Simon Maenaut , Gregorio Carullo , Pablo A. Cano , Anna Liu , Vitor Cardoso , Thomas Hertog , Tjonnie G. F. Li

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

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

After discussing some subtle issues concerning the computation of deflection angle, a general but simple expression of bending angle of light rays in weak deflection limit has been presented for a general static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-21 Arunava Bhadra

We investigate analytically gravitational lensing by charged, stationary, axially symmetric Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole in the weak deflection limit. Approximate solutions to the lightlike equations of motion are present up to and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

Regular black holes and black-bounce spacetimes frequently emerge in theoretical frameworks beyond general relativity, as well as in general relativity coupled to non-linear sources. A profound complication in these frameworks is source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Hao Yang , Chen Lan

We investigate gravitational wave emission from periodic timelike orbits of a test particle around a loop quantum gravity-inspired Schwarzschild black hole. The spacetime is characterised by a holonomy-correction parameter that modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Fazlay Ahmed , Qiang Wu , Sushant G Ghosh , Tao Zhu

The propagation of gravitational waves can be described in terms of null geodesics by using the geometrical optics approximation. However, at large but finite frequencies the propagation is affected by the spin-orbit coupling corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Marius A. Oancea , Richard Stiskalek , Miguel Zumalacárregui

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

Observational measurements of the relationship between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the properties of their host galaxies are an important method for probing theoretical hierarchical growth models. Gravitational lensing is a unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Judd D. Bowman , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , James R. Kiger

We describe a new approach to calculating photon trajectories and gravitational lensing effects in the strong gravitational field of the Kerr black hole. These techniques are applied to explore both the imaging and spectral properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Kris Beckwith , Chris Done

This work investigates additional gravitational features of a newly proposed black hole spacetime within Kalb-Ramond gravity, incorporating non-commutative corrections arising from a gauge-theoretic approach recently introduced in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo , Yuxuan Shi

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing and accretion disk imaging characteristics of a dense core modeled by the Buchdahl spacetime. By imposing the appropriate energy conditions and ensuring the absence of curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Takahisa Igata , Motoki Omamiuda , Yohsuke Takamori

In this work, we study the black hole light echoes in terms of the two-photon autocorrelation and explore their connection with the quasinormal modes. It is shown that the above time-domain phenomenon can be analyzed by utilizing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Liang Qian , Kai Lin , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang , Rui-Hong Yue

It is well known that general relativity is an effective theory of gravity at low energy scale, and actually quantum effects cannot be ignored in the strong-field regime. As a strong gravitational object, black hole plays a key role in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Qi-Ming Fu , Xin Zhang

The quasinormal mode spectrum of gravitational waves emitted during the black hole ringdown relaxation phase, following the merger of a black hole binary, is a crucial target of gravitational wave astronomy. By considering causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto