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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 use the strong field limit approach to investigate the gravitational lensing properties of braneworld black holes. Applying this method to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the lensing observables…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard Whisker

In this article we study gravitational lensing by non-rotating and asymptotically flat black holes in Horndeski theory. By adopting the strong deflection limit, we calculate the deflection angle, from which we obtain the positions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

We investigate in detail the weak-field gravitational lensing of a relativistic neutral massive particle induced by a regular black-bounce-Schwarzschild black hole proposed by Simpson and Visser. Starting with the calculation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Guansheng He , Yi Xie , Chunhua Jiang , Wenbin Lin

We investigate how central black holes (BHs) inhabited in galactic dark halos could affect strong gravitational lensing. The distribution of integral lensing probability with image separations are calculated for quasars of redshift 1.5 by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Da-Ming Chen

The shapes of relativistic iron lines observed in spectra of candidate black holes carry the signatures of the strong gravitational fields in which the accretion disks lie. These lines result from the sum of the contributions of all images…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 G. F. Aldi , V. Bozza

We analyze gravitational lensing and their cast images from thin-disks in shadow observations of a family of spherically symmetric black hole solutions previously derived within the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Such black holes depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 David J. Patiño Pomares , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We have developed a realistic, fully general relativistic computer code to simulate optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. The standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova

Strong field gravitational lensing in the context of both higher spacetime dimensions and in presence of Kalb-Ramond field have been studied. After developing proper analytical tools to analyze the problem we consider gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-01 Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing phenomena caused by a black hole with a dark matter halo. In this study, we examine strong gravitational lensing with two significant dark matter models: the universal rotation curve model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Dhruv Arora , Farruh Atamurotov , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

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

We propose a new procedure for measuring the spin of a black hole with an unprecedented accuracy based on the gravitational lensing of millisecond pulsars. We derive the basic equations for lensing by a rotating black hole. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

We analyse strong gravitational field time delay for photons coupled to the Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole. By making use of the method of strong deflection limit, we find that these time delays between relativistic images are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-05 Xu Lu , Feng-Wei Yang , Yi Xie

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

We study gravitational lensing of light by hairy black holes, which, in a certain parameter regime, can possess two photon spheres of different size outside the event horizon. In particular, we focus on higher-order images of a point-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Guangzhou Guo , Xin Jiang , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu

We propose a novel concept of astrophysical mirroring in the schwarzschild framework, which emerges as a direct consequence of gravitational lensing effects occurring in the immediate vicinity of extremely dense massive objects within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Bikramarka S Choudhury , Aritra Sanyal , Md Khalid Hossain , Farook Rahaman

We describe the feasibility of detecting the gravitational deflection of light emitted by stars moving under the influence of the massive object at the Galactic center. Light emitted by a star orbiting behind the central mass has a smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adi Nusser , Tom Broadhurst

We studied the relativistic images caused by strong gravitational lensing in Kerr black hole images, which carry some essential signatures about the black hole space-time. We defined a new celestial coordinates whose origin is the center of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The gravitational deflection effect of relativistic massive and massless particles up to the first post-Minkowskian order caused by a moving Schwarzschild black hole with a two-dimensional equatorial velocity, which contains the radial and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Xuan Wang , Wenbin Lin , Ghulam Mustafa , Guansheng He

Black holes in General Relativity are described by space-time metrics that are simpler in comparison to non-vacuum compact objects. However, given the universality of the gravitational pull, it is expected that dark matter accumulates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Caio F. B. Macedo , João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia