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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 problem of bending and scattering of light rays passing outside from the entrance to a wormhole with zero gravitational mass is considered. The process of ray capture by a wormhole as well as the process of formation of a shadow when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-07 Mikhail A. Bugaev , Igor D. Novikov , Serge V. Repin , Anna A. Shelkovnikova

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

We consider a class of stationary and axisymmetric wormhole spacetimes that is closely related to, but not identical with, the class of Teo wormholes. We fix a point $p$ (observation event) and a timelike curve $\gamma$ (worldline of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Mourad Halla , Volker Perlick

In some models dark energy is described by phantom scalar fields (scalar fields with "wrong" sign of the kinetic term in the lagrangian). In the current paper we study the effect of phantom scalar field and/or phantom electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-31 Galin N. Gyulchev , Ivan Zh. Stefanov

By using a method improved with a generalized optical metric, the deflection of light for an observer and source at finite distance from a lens object in a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-08 Toshiaki Ono , Asahi Ishihara , Hideki Asada

In this paper, we investigate the microlensing effects of wormholes associated to black hole spacetimes. Specifically, we work on three typical wormholes (WH): Schwarzschild WH, Kerr WH, and RN WH, as well as their blackhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-09 Ke Gao , Lei-Hua Liu , Mian Zhu

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

Black hole lensing and gravitational waves are, respectively, closely dependent of the property of the lens and radiation source. In this letter, a universal relation between them is established for a rotating black hole acting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The study of light lensed by cosmic matter has yielded much information about astrophysical questions. Observations are explained using geometrical optics following a ray-based description of light. After deflection the lensed light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Thao P. Nguyen , Kiyan S. Hocek , Jacob M. Freedman , Enrique J. Galvez

Weak gravitational lensing by black holes and wormholes in the context of massive gravity (Bebronne and Tinyakov 2009) theory is studied. The particular solution examined is characterized by two integration constants, the mass $M$ and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 Kimet Jusufi , Nayan Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

We develop a unified, analytic framework for gravitational lensing by Kerr black holes. In this first paper we present a new, general lens equation and magnification formula governing lensing by a compact object. Our lens equation assumes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amir B. Aazami , Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

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

A recent study by Rahaman et al. has shown that the galactic halo possesses the necessary properties for supporting traversable wormholes, based on two observational results, the density profile due to Navarro et al. and the observed flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This paper investigates the novel phenomenon of gravitational lensing experienced by gravitational waves traveling past a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by a specific, first-order, polar gravitational wave. We utilize the Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

This study deals with the new class of embedded wormhole solutions in the background of general relativity. Two newly calculated wormhole solutions satisfy all the required properties. All the energy conditions are discussed through their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa , S. K. Maurya

The gravitational field of supermassive black holes is able to strongly bend light rays emitted by nearby sources. When the deflection angle exceeds $\pi$, gravitational lensing can be analytically approximated by the so-called strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Bozza , G. Scarpetta

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

The gravitational lensing effect at higher order under weak-field approximation is believed to be important to distinguish black holes and other compact objects such as wormholes. The deflection angle of a generic wormhole is difficult to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Tingqi Cai , Hyat Huang , Zun Wang , Mian Zhu

The null geodesic equations that describe motion of photons in Kerr spacetime are solved exactly in the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. The exact solution for the deflection angle for generic light orbits (i.e. non-polar,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-08 G. V. Kraniotis