Seeing Black Holes : from the Computer to the Telescope
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2025-08-19 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of the massive black hole lurking at the Galactic Center. The mass of data collected in one night by the Event Horizon Telescope network, exceeding everything that has ever been done in any scientific field, should provide a recomposed image during 2018. All this, forty years after the first numerical simulations done by the present author.
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@article{arxiv.1804.03909,
title = {Seeing Black Holes : from the Computer to the Telescope},
author = {Jean-Pierre Luminet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03909},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures. Extented version of an article originally published in French in La Recherche vol.533 (mars 2018)