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Time delays from strong gravitational lensing provide a one-step absolute distance measurement. Thus, they measure $H_0$ independently of all other probes. We first review the foundations and history of time-delay cosmography. Then, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Tommaso Treu , Anowar J. Shajib

Attosecond photoionisation time delays reveal information about the potential energy landscape an outgoing electron wavepacket probes upon ionisation. In this study we experimentally quantify, for the first time, the dependence of the time…

I propose a spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement scheme for the far-field imaging of spatially incoherent optical sources. For any object too small to be resolved by direct imaging under the diffraction limit, I show that SPADE…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Mankei Tsang

A horizonless ultracompact object can have a stable antiphoton sphere, which causes the strong deflection of photons inside the unstable photon sphere, leading to the formation of distinctive inner photon rings. In this work, we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Yuan-Xing Gao

Recently, there have been two landmark discoveries of gravitationally lensed supernovae: the first multiply-imaged SN, "Refsdal", and the first Type Ia SN resolved into multiple images, SN iPTF16geu. Fitting the multiple light curves of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 Justin R. Pierel , Steven A. Rodney

Shape resonances in photoionization of atoms and molecules arise from a particular geometry of the ionic potential which traps the receding photoelectron in a quasi-bound state in a particular partial wave. This mechanism allows us to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Anatoli S. Kheifets , Stephen Catsamas

In this paper, we employ a ray-tracing algorithm to simulate the shadows of three equal-mass black holes in static equilibrium across a wide parameter space. We find that the shadows consist of a larger primary shadow and several distorted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Dan Li , Yuxiang Zuo , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Yu Wang , Wenfu Cao

The expression of gravitational time advancement (negative time delay) for particles with non-zero mass in Schwarzschild geometry has been obtained. The influences of the gravitational field that describes the observed rotation curves of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Samrat Ghosh , Arunava Bhadra , Amitabha Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we study the gravitational lensing effects of non-linear electrodynamic black holes. Non-linear electrodynamic black holes serve as typical models for multi-event horizon black holes. Depending on the choice of metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Siyuan Hui , Benrong Mu , Peng Wang

We model the light-curves from radiation-driven clouds near an accreting black hole. Taking into account the multiple images due to strong gravitational lensing, we find that sharp spikes can significantly enhance the observed flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-16 V. Karas

In this work, we investigate the gravitational lensing of a charged black hole (spherically symmetric) within the context of Lorentz violation triggered by an antisymmetric tensor field. Our calculations consider two different scenarios:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 A. A. Araújo Filho

High-dimensional entanglement in the form of transverse spatial correlation between a pair of photons generated via spontaneous parametric downconversion is not only a valuable resource in many academic and real-life applications but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Rounak Chatterjee , Vikas S Bhat , Kiran Bajar , Sushil Mujumdar

Photons emitted by light sources in the neighbourhood of a black hole can wind several times around it before fleeing towards the observer. For spherically symmetric black holes, two infinite sequences of images are created for any given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 F. Aratore , V. Bozza

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to study the behavior of the photon sphere and shadow radius. Our method uses extended gravitational decoupling and reveals two important analytic results. First, the additional matter field alters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün

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

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic phenomenological signatures of a Schwarzschild-MOG black hole shadow perturbed by passing gravitational waves. By perturbing the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for photon null geodesics, we demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

In this article, we have investigated the equations of motion of the photons coupled to Weyl tensor by the geometric optics approximation and the corresponding shadow in a Brane-World black hole spacetime. It is shown that there exists a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 He-Xu Zhang , Cong Li , Peng-Zhang He , Qi-Qi Fan , Jian-Bo Deng

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We establish a direct connection between the interior curvature structure of nonsingular black holes (BHs) with a Minkowski core and their observable optical signatures. By classifying these spacetimes into three fundamental types, Type I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Ming-Xin Li , Jin Pu , Yi Ling , Guo-Ping Li

Attosecond photoemission or photoionization delays are a unique probe of the structure and the electronic dynamics of matter. However, spectral congestion and spatial delocalization of valence electron wave functions set fundamental limits…