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We consider a Kerr black hole acting as a gravitational deflector within the geometrical optics, and point source approximations. The Kerr black hole gravitational lens geometry consisting of an observer and a source located far away and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Samuel E. Vázquez , Ernesto P. Esteban

In this work, we study the gravitational lensing by a Lorentz-violating (LV) black hole inspired by the recent contribution [1]. Explicitly, we concentrate on a specific application: we perform the computation of gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-21 A. A. Araújo Filho , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

Schwarzschild black holes can produce strong gravitational lensing. The relativistic images are produced due to bending of light around the black hole. We propose a model equation to study the strong gravitational lensing. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-17 Tushar Kanti Dey

This paper investigates gravitational lensing effects in the presence of plasma in the strong deflection limit, which corresponds to light rays circling around a compact object and forming higher-order images. While previous studies of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

We study strong gravitational lensing in a static, spherically symmetric, naked singularity spacetime, without a photon sphere. The nature of the singularity is found to be lightlike. We discuss the characteristic lensing features of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Suvankar Paul

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 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

We consider gravitational lensing under a weak-field approximation and in a strong deflection limit by a Bronnikov-Kim wormhole with the same metric as the one of a wormhole which has been suggested in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Naoki Tsukamoto

Light rays passing very close to a black hole may experience very strong deviations. Two geometries were separately considered in the recent literature: a source behind the black hole (standard gravitational lensing); a source in front of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

In this paper, charged black holes in general relativity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics are studied as gravitational lenses. The positions and magnifications of the relativistic images are obtained using the strong deflection limit,…

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

Strong field gravitational lensing in the Brans-Dicke theory has been studied. The deflection angle for photons passing very close to the photon sphere is estimated for the static spherically symmetric space-time of the theory and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Kabita Sarkar , Arunava Bhadra

Using a new geometrical approach introduced by Gibbons and Werner we study the deflection angle by Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in the background spacetimes with a global monopole and a cosmic string. By calculating the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Kimet Jusufi

A charged black hole was predicted by the Einstein--Horndeski--Maxwell theory. In order to provide its observational signatures, we investigate its weak and strong deflection gravitational lensings. We find its weak deflection lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-15 Cheng-Yi Wang , Yu-Fu Shen , Yi Xie

In this paper we study the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild solution with holonomy corrections. We use two types of approximation methods to calculate the deflection angle, namely the weak and strong field limits. For the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Ednaldo L. B. Junior , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Manuel E. Rodrigues , Henrique A. Vieira

We generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta

We discuss weak lensing characteristics in the gravitational field of a compact object in the low-energy approximation of fourth order f(R) gravity theory. The particular solution is characterized by a gravitational strength parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 Zsolt Horváth , László Á. Gergely , David Hobill , Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

In the present work, we theoretically investigate gravitational lensing in the spacetime of a holonomy corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Analytical expressions for the light deflection angle are obtained in both the weak field limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 A. R. Soares , C. F. S. Pereira , R. L. L. Vitória

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing for black hole with scalar charge in massive gravity. We find that the scalar charge and the type of the black hole significantly affect the radius of the photon sphere, deflection angle,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Songbai Chen