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The deflection of light in the gravitational field of a massive body can be analyzed through diverse theoretical approaches. The null geodesic approach is commonly employed to calculate light deflection within strong and weak field limits.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Atanu Singha , Hemwati Nandan , A. K. Sen

We investigate the gravitational lensing of a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole with a global monopole at finite distances. In this asymptotically nonflat spacetime, the deflection angle of light is decomposed into two parts: the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Yi Lu , Xiao-Yin Pan , Meng-Yun Lai , Qing-hai Wang

The gravitational field around an astrophysical black hole (BH) is thought to be described by the Kerr spacetime, which is a solution of the Einstein equation. Signatures of binary black hole (BBH) coalescence in gravitational waves (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Debtroy Das , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

Interpreting horizon-scale observations of astrophysical black holes demands a general understanding of null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. These may be divided into two classes: "direct" rays that primarily determine the observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca

We have derived analytical solutions using Jacobi elliptic functions for bound and nearly bound photon orbits in Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) and Kerr-de Sitter Revisited (RKdS) spacetimes. Leveraging our obtained solutions, we have conducted an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Eunice Omwoyo , Humberto Belich , Júlio C. Fabris , Hermano Velten

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

We investigate the gravitational lensing properties and the formation of relativistic images associated with black holes modeled by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr space-time geometries. In particular, we perform numerical computations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Angelika Ghazale , Oliver F. Piattella

We present here a detailed derivation of an explicit spin-dependent expression for the bending angle of light as it traverses in the equatorial plane of a spinning black hole. We show that the deflection produced in the presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Savitri V. Iyer , Edward C. Hansen

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 present a detailed derivation of the weak-field deflection of light in the scalar hairy black hole spacetime with scalar charge $Q_s$ and bumblebee gravity black hole spacetime, characterized by a Lorentz-violating parameter $\ell$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

The Kerr solution is the cornerstone of General Relativity (GR) for modelling astrophysical rotating black holes and for testing GR through gravitational-wave observations and black hole imaging. Understanding how the Kerr geometry is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jibril Ben Achour , Adolfo Cisterna , Hugo Roussille

Gravitational lensing of a light source by a black hole leads to appearance of higher-order images produced by photons that loop around the black hole before reaching the observer. Higher-order images were widely investigated numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The study of Kerr geodesics has a long history, particularly for those occurring within the equatorial plane, which is generally well-understood. However, upon comparison with the classification introduced by one of us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Yan Liu , Bing Sun

New coordinates are given which describe non-degenerate Kerr black holes in dual-null foliations based on the outer (or inner) horizons, generalizing the Kruskal form for Schwarzschild black holes. The construction involves an area radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward

The deflection of light's trajectory has been studied in many different spacetime geometries in weak and strong gravity, including the special cases of spherically symmetric static and spinning black holes. It is also well known that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 S. V. Iyer

In this paper, a braneworld black hole is studied as a gravitational lens, using the strong field limit to obtain the positions and magnifications of the relativistic images. Standard lensing and retrolensing situations are analyzed in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Recently, a non-trivial $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as $\alpha/(D-4)$, was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypasses Lovelock's theorem and avoids Ostrogradsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shafqat Ul Islam , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects and optical appearances around a spherically symmetric regular black hole, whose metric is derived from a non-singular collapsing dust ball model in asymptotically safe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Xiao-Jun Gao

Theories of gravity extending or modifying general relativity typically allow for black hole solutions different from the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometries. Electromagnetic observations have been used to place constraints on parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse