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Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes with Multiple Photon Spheres

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arxiv 2204.13948 v2 pith:32KEH6E7 submitted 2022-04-29 gr-qc hep-th

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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 light source and a luminous celestial sphere produced by strong gravitational lensing near photon spheres. Two photon spheres usually triple the number of high-order images of a point-like light source. When a hairy black hole is illuminated by a celestial sphere, two photon spheres would give rise to two critical curves in the black hole image, and the smaller critical curve coincides with the shadow edge. In addition to a set of higher-order images of the celestial sphere outside the shadow edge, two more sets of higher-order images are observed inside and outside the larger critical curve, respectively.

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