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We investigate the gravitational lensing by Bardeen black hole in cloud of strings (CoS) in strong field limit. The effect of CoS parameter $b$ has been outlined in comparison with Bardeen black hole lens. The strong deflection limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Bijendra Kumar Vishvakarma , Shubham Kala , Sanjay Siwach

We analyze gravitational lensing, in particular the shadow and photon rings, in the Ernst spacetime, also known as the Schwarzschild-Melvin spacetime, which describes a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a homogenous magnetic field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Haider Khan , Volker Perlick

In this letter, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects around two classes of rotating regular black holes, which behave as non-singular Minkowski core at the center. Starting from the null geodesic in the equatorial plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Mingyu Guo , Menghe Wu , Hong Guo , Xiaomei Kuang , Fuyao Liu

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing of a spherically symmetric spacetime in the Einstein-Proca theory. With the strong field limit coefficient, three observable quantities are obtained,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-19 Guoping Li , Yan Zhang , Li Zhang , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

Strong gravitational lenses allow us to peer into the farthest reaches of space by bending the light from a background object around a massive object in the foreground. Unfortunately, these lenses are extremely rare, and manually finding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Stephen Sheng , Keerthi Vasan G. C , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack , Tucker Jones

In this work, we calculate the deflection angle of light in a spacetime that interpolates between regular black holes and traversable wormholes, depending on the free parameter of the metric. Afterwards, this angular deflection is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio , A. R. Soares

We investigate strong gravitational lensing using magnetized Kerr black holes (MKBHs), which are accurate Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson solutions for Kerr black holes in a uniform magnetic field with additional magnetic field strength $B$ apart…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Amnish Vachher , Arun Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

The gravitational lensing of relativistic neutral massive particles caused by a Kerr-Newman black hole is investigated systematically in the weak-field limit. Based on the Kerr-Newman metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, we first derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

We model massive dark objects at centers of many galaxies as Schwarzschild black hole lenses and study gravitational lensing by them in detail. We show that the ratio of mass of a Schwarzschild lens to the differential time delay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-13 K. S. Virbhadra

We have investigated the strong gravitational lensing for the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. We find that in the four-dimensional black hole spacetime the equation of motion of the photons depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-05 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

This paper reviews a phenomenological approach to the gravitational lensing by exotic objects such as the Ellis wormhole lens, where exotic lens objects may follow a non-standard form of the equation of state or may obey a modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-07 Hideki Asada

Strong lensing is a powerful tool to address three major astrophysical issues: understanding the spatial distribution of mass at kpc and sub-kpc scale, where baryons and dark matter interact to shape galaxies as we see them; determining the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Treu

The deflection of light in the strong field limit is an important test for alternative theories of gravity. However, solutions for the metric that allow for analytic computations are not always available. We implement a hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Javier Chagoya , C. Ortiz , Benito Rodríguez , Armando A. Roque

We study the strong gravitational lensing due to the Kerr black holes with angular momentum $a$ and the Kerr-Newman black holes with additional charge $Q$. We first derive the analytical expressions of the deflection angles of light rays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-21 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

Fast variability studies of accreting black holes in the Galaxy offer us a unique opportunity to measure the spins of black holes and test the strong-field behavior of general relativity. In this review, I summarize the arguments often used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitrios Psaltis

Strong field gravitational lensings are dramatically disparate from those in the weak field by representing relativistic images due to light winds one to infinity loops around a lens before escaping. We study such a lensing caused by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 Shan-Shan Zhao , Yi Xie

Astrophysical black holes are likely to be surrounded by various forms of matter in the form of disks or halos. While a number of studies have examined the impact of an environment on the lensing of light or gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kyriakos Destounis

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