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most citedGravitational lensing by black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

189 citations · 712 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

gr-qc2026

Probing Kalb-Ramond gravity with charged rotating black holes: constraints from EHT observations

Towheed Ahmad Nengroo, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has guided strong-field gravitational physics by providing the first direct images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. The EH…

gr-qc2025

Probing Lorentz Symmetry Violation through Lensing Observables of Rotating Black Holes

Arun Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

We find a Kerr-like black hole solution-a rotating Bumblebee black hole (RBBH) with a Lorentz-violating parameter and examine the strong lensing by it. The parameter …

gr-qc2024★ 3 cited

Photon orbits and phase transition for gravitational decoupled Kerr anti-de Sitter black holes

Suhail Khan, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh +1

Interpreting the cosmological constant as the energy of the vacuum and using a gravitational decoupling approach leads to a new Kerr--anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole. The metric of…

gr-qc2024

Investigating Rotating Black Holes in Bumblebee Gravity: Insights from EHT Observations

Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh, Sunil D. Maharaj

The EHT observation revealed event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* and these results are consistent with the shadow of a Kerr black hole as pre…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Shadows and parameter estimation of rotating quantum corrected black holes and constraints from EHT observation of M87* and Sgr A*

Heena Ali, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

The scarcity of quantum gravity (QG) inspired rotating black holes limits the progress of testing QG through Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations. The EHT imaged the supermas…

gr-qc2024

Testing Strong Gravitational Lensing Effects of Supermassive Black Holes with String-Inspired Metric: Observational Signatures and EHT Constraints

Amnish Vachher, Shafqat Ul Islam, Rahul Kumar Walia +1

We analyze gravitational lensing in the strong field limit for spherically symmetric string-inspired Euler-Heisenberg black holes, characterized by magnetic charge () and Einste…

gr-qc2023

Rotating Kiselev Black Holes in Gravity

Sushant G. Ghosh, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sunil D. Maharaj

Exact solutions describing rotating black holes can provide significant opportunities for testing modified theories of gravity, which are motivated by the challenges posed by dark…

gr-qc2023

Strong Gravitational Lensing by Loop Quantum Gravity Motivated Rotating Black Holes and EHT Observations

Jitendra Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate gravitational lensing in the strong deflection regime by loop quantum gravity (LQG)-motivated rotating black hole (LMRBH) metrics with an additional parameter be…

gr-qc2022★ 53 cited

Investigating Loop Quantum Gravity with EHT Observational Effects of Rotating Black holes

Shafqat Ul Islam, Jitendra Kumar, Rahul Kumar Walia +1

A mathematically consistent rotating black hole model in loop quantum gravity (LQG) is yet lacking. The scarcity of rotating black hole solutions in LQG substantially hampers the d…

gr-qc2022★ 17 cited

Loop Quantum Gravity motivated multihorizon rotating black holes

Jitendra Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

With a semiclassical polymerization in the loop quantum gravity (LQG), the interior of Schwarzschild black holes provides a captivating single-horizon regular black hole spacetime.…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

Strong gravitational lensing by Bardeen black holes in 4D EGB gravity: constraints from supermassive black holes

Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh, Sunil D. Maharaj

Observation indicates that many nearby galaxies host supermassive central black holes. Modelling Bardeen models in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity, with add…

gr-qc2021★ 59 cited

Investigating strong gravitational lensing effects by suppermassive black holes with Horndeski gravity

Jitendra Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

We study gravitational lensing in strong-field limit by a static spherically symmetric black hole in quartic scalar field Horndeski gravity having additional hair parameter , ev…

gr-qc2021★ 102 cited

Strong gravitational lensing by rotating Simpson--Visser black holes

Shafqat Ul Islam, Jitendra Kumar, Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate strong field gravitational lensing by rotating Simpson-Visser black hole, which has an additional parameter (), apart from mass () and rotation…

gr-qc2021★ 58 cited

Strong field gravitational lensing by hairy Kerr black holes

Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

Recent times witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black hole l…

gr-qc2020★ 84 cited

Parameters estimation and strong gravitational lensing of nonsingular Kerr-Sen black holes

Sushant G. Ghosh, Rahul Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam

The recent time witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes is due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black…

gr-qc2020★ 134 cited

Gravitational lensing by charged black hole in regularized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Rahul Kumar, Shafqat Ul Islam, Sushant G. Ghosh

Among the higher curvature gravities, the most extensively studied theory is the so-called Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, whose Lagrangian contains Einstein term with the GB…

gr-qc2020★ 189 cited

Gravitational lensing by black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Shafqat Ul Islam, Rahul Kumar, Sushant G. Ghosh

Recently, a non-trivial Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory of gravity, by rescaling the GB coupling parameter as , was formulated in \cite{Glavan:2019inb}, which bypa…