To Probe a Black Hole
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Authors:
Andrei Gruzinov
Abstract
We show how an idealized high-frequency VLBI can probe the metric of nearby supermassive black holes. No quantitative assumptions about plasma dynamics are used in the suggested diagnostic, which is based on strong-field lensing.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0007080,
title = {To Probe a Black Hole},
author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0007080},
year = {2007}
}
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