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In this work, we studied the Galactic Center supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA)/East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) monitoring observations. Especially on 13 May 2019, Sgr A* experienced…

Variable emission from Sgr~A*, the luminous counterpart to the super-massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy, arises from the innermost portions of the accretion flow. Better characterization of the variability is important for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 Jordan M. Stone , D. P. Marrone , C. D. Dowell , B. Schulz , C. O. Heinke , F. Yusef-Zadeh

We report on the submillimeter properties of Sagittarius A* derived from observations with the Submillimeter Array and its polarimeter. We find that the spectrum of Sgr A* between 230 and 690 GHz is slightly decreasing when measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel P. Marrone , James M. Moran , Jun-Hui Zhao , Ramprasad Rao

We present a search for linear polarization at 22 GHz, 43 GHz and 86 GHz from the nearest super massive black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*. We find upper limits to the linear polarization of 0.2%, 0.4% and 1%, respectively. These results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Geoffrey C. Bower , Melvyn C. H. Wright , Donald C. Backer , Heino Falcke

Recent observations of the Milky-way galactic center at various frequencies suggest a supermassive compact object. Generally, that supermassive compact object is assumed to be a `Black Hole', having more than four million solar masses. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Saurabh , Parth Bambhaniya , Pankaj S. Joshi

We have now entered the new era of high-resolution imaging astronomy with the beginning of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT can resolve the dynamics of matter in the immediate vicinity around black holes at and below the horizon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Paul Tiede , Hung-Yi Pu , Avery E. Broderick , Roman Gold , Mansour Karami , Jorge A. Preciado-López

We continue our previous work, Chan et al. 2024, to investigate how variations in the electron temperature prescription parameter, $R_{\rm Low}$, influence the $3$-hour variability at $230$\,GHz, $M_{\Delta T}$, in magnetic-arrested disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Chi-kwan Chan

Sgr A* is considered to be a massive black hole at the Galactic center and is known to be variable in radio, millimeter, near-IR and X-rays. Recent multi-wavelength observing campaigns show a simultaneous X-ray and near-IR flare, as well as…

Millimeter-wavelength VLBI observations of the supermassive black holes in Sgr A* and M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope could potentially trace the dynamics of ejected plasma blobs in real time. We demonstrate that the trajectory and tidal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is located at the dynamical center of the Milky Way. In a recent study of the X-ray flaring activity from Sgr A* using Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift data from 1999 to 2015, it has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 E. Mossoux , B. Finociety , J. -M. Beckers , F. H. Vincent

We present and discuss new result from mm-VLBI observations of M87 and SgrA*, using the Global mm-VLBI array (GMVA). New 3mm-VLBI images of the inner jet of M87 are presented, showing details with a spatial resolution down to 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. P. Krichbaum , D. A. Graham , M. Bremer , W. Alef , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus , A. Eckart

At the center of the Milky Way, with a distance of ~8 kpc, the compact source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) can be associated with a super massive black hole of ~4x10^6 solar masses. SgrA* shows strong variability from the radio to the X-ray…

We report on the results of new simulations of near-infrared (NIR) observations of the Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) counterpart associated with the super-massive black hole at the Galactic Center. The observations have been carried out using the…

The recent 230 GHz observations of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are able to image the innermost structure of the M87 and show a ring-like structure which is in agreement with thermal synchrotron emission generated in a torus…

Massive black hole binaries are expected to be observable as periodic AGN in time-domain photometric surveys. Periodicities may originate from different physical processes, including the intermittent gas feeding of the black holes caused by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Lorenzo Bertassi , Maria Charisi , Riccardo Buscicchio , Fabio Rigamonti , Jessie Runnoe , Massimo Dotti

The Centaurus A radio galaxy, due to its proximity, presents itself as one of the few systems that allow the study of relativistic jet outflows at sub-parsec distances from the central supermassive black holes, with high signal to noise. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Steve Prabu , Steven J Tingay , Arash Bahramian , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Callan M. Wood , Shane P. O'Sullivan

VLBI at millimeter wavelengths (mm-VLBI) allows the detailed imaging of compact galactic and extragalactic radio sources with micro-arcsecond scale resolution, unaccessible by other observing techniques. Here we discuss the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P Krichbaum , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

Recent infrared (IR) observations of the center of our Galaxy indicate that the supermassive black hole source Sgr A* is strongly variable in the IR. The timescale for the variability, $\sim 30$ min, is comparable to that of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

We have detected substructure within the smooth scattering disk of the celebrated Galactic Center radio source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*). We observed this structure at 1.3 cm wavelength with the Very Long Baseline Array together with the Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-03 C. R. Gwinn , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. D. Johnson , V. A. Soglasnov

MAXI J1820+070 (optical counterpart ASASSN-18ey) is a black hole candidate discovered through its recent very bright outburst. The low extinction column and long duration at high flux allow detailed measurements of the accretion process to…