Extreme gravitational lensing in vicinity of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes

Central European Journal of Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 599-610

  Bakala, Pavel ^a   Čermák, Petr ^a   Hledík, Stanislav ^a   Stuchlík, Zdeněk ^a   Truparová, Kamila ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY IN OPAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Black holes; Cosmological constant; Gravitational lensing; Numerical relativity; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749030724     PISSN: 18951082     EISSN: 16443608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11534-007-0033-6     Document Type: Article

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