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Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT Campaign including a Very High Energy Flaring Episode

The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of the only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In 2018, more than two dozen multi-wavelength (MWL)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-19 J. C. Algaba , M. Balokovic , S. Chandra , W. Y. Cheong , Y. Z. Cui , F. D'Ammando , A. D. Falcone , N. M. Ford , M. Giroletti , C. Goddi , M. A. Gurwell , K. Hada , D. Haggard , S. Jorstad , A. Kaur , T. Kawashima , S. Kerby , J. Y. Kim , M. Kino , E. V. Kravchenko , S. S. Lee , R. S. Lu , S. Markoff , J. Michail , J. Neilsen , M. A. Nowak , G. Principe , V. Ramakrishnan , B. Ripperda , M. Sasada , S. S. Savchenko , C. Sheridan , K. Akiyama , A. Alberdi , W. Alef , R. Anantua , K. Asada , R. Azulay , U. Bach , A. -K. Baczko , D. Ball , B. Bandyopadhyay , J. Barrett , M. Bauböck , B. A. Benson , D. Bintley , L. Blackburn , R. Blundell , K. L. Bouman , G. C. Bower , H. Boyce , M. Bremer , R. Brissenden , S. Britzen , A. E. Broderick , D. Broguiere , T. Bronzwaer , S. Bustamante , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Chael , C. -K. Chan , D. O. Chang , K. Chatterjee , S. Chatterjee , M. -T. Chen , Y. Chen , X. Cheng , I. Cho , P. Christian , N. S. Conroy , J. E. Conway , T. M. Crawford , G. B. Crew , A. Cruz-Osorio , R. Dahale , J. Davelaar , M. De Laurentis , R. Deane , J. Dempsey , G. Desvignes , J. Dexter , V. Dhruv , I. K. Dihingia , S. S. Doeleman , S. A. Dzib , R. P. Eatough , R. Emami , H. Falcke , J. Farah , V. L. Fish , E. Fomalont , H. A. Ford , M. Foschi , R. Fraga-Encinas , W. T. Freeman , P. Friberg , C. M. Fromm , A. Fuentes , P. Galison , C. F. Gammie , R. García , O. Gentaz , B. Georgiev , R. Gold , A. I. Gómez-Ruiz , J. L. Gómez , M. Gu , R. Hesper , D. Heumann , L. C. Ho , P. Ho , M. Honma , C. -W. L. Huang , L. Huang , D. H. Hughes , S. Ikeda , C. M. V. Impellizzeri , M. Inoue , S. Issaoun , D. J. James , B. T. Jannuzi , M. Janssen , B. Jeter , W. Jiang , A. Jiménez-Rosales , M. D. Johnson , A. C. Jones , A. V. Joshi , T. Jung , R. Karuppusamy , G. K. Keating , M. Kettenis , D. -J. Kim , J. Kim , J. Kim , J. Y. Koay , P. Kocherlakota , Y. Kofuji , P. M. Koch , S. Koyama , C. Kramer , J. A. Kramer , M. Kramer , T. P. Krichbaum , C. -Y. Kuo , N. La Bella , A. Levis , Z. Li , R. Lico , G. Lindahl , M. Lindqvist , M. Lisakov , J. Liu , K. Liu , E. Liuzzo , W. -P. Lo , A. P. Lobanov , L. Loinard , C. J. Lonsdale , A. E. Lowitz , N. R. MacDonald , J. Mao , N. Marchili , D. P. Marrone , A. P. Marscher , I. Martí-Vidal , S. Matsushita , L. D. Matthews , L. Medeiros , K. M. Menten , I. Mizuno , Y. Mizuno , J. Montgomery , J. M. Moran , K. Moriyama , M. Moscibrodzka , W. Mulaudzi , C. Müller , H. Müller , A. Mus , G. Musoke , I. Myserlis , H. Nagai , N. M. Nagar , D. G. Nair , M. Nakamura , G. Narayanan , I. Natarajan , A. Nathanail , S. Navarro Fuentes , C. Ni , J. Oh , H. Okino , H. Olivares , T. Oyama , F. Özel , D. C. M. Palumbo , G. Filippos Paraschos , J. Park , H. Parsons , N. Patel , U. -L. Pen , D. W. Pesce , V. Piétu , A. PopStefanija , O. Porth , B. Prather , D. Psaltis , H. -Y. Pu , R. Rao , M. G. Rawlings , A. W. Raymond , L. Rezzolla , A. Ricarte , F. Roelofs , C. Romero-Cañizales , E. Ros , A. Roshanineshat , H. Rottmann , A. L. Roy , I. Ruiz , C. Ruszczyk , K. L. J. Rygl , S. Sánchez , D. Sánchez-Argüelles , M. Sánchez-Portal , K. Satapathy , T. Savolainen , F. P. Schloerb , J. Schonfeld , K. -F. Schuster , L. Shao , Z. Shen , D. Small , B. W. Sohn , J. SooHoo , L. D. Sosapanta Salas , K. Souccar , J. S. Stanway , H. Sun , F. Tazaki , A. J. Tetarenko , P. Tiede , R. P. J. Tilanus , M. Titus , K. Toma , P. Torne , T. Toscano , E. Traianou , T. Trent , S. Trippe , M. Turk , I. van Bemmel , H. J. van Langevelde , D. R. van Rossum , J. Vos , J. Wagner , D. Ward-Thompson , J. Wardle , J. E. Washington , J. Weintroub , R. Wharton , M. Wielgus , K. Wiik , G. Witzel , M. F. Wondrak , G. N. Wong , Q. Wu , N. Yadlapalli , P. Yamaguchi , A. Yfantis , D. Yoon , A. Young , Z. Younsi , W. Yu , F. Yuan , Y. -F. Yuan , J. A. Zensus , S. Zhang , G. -Y. Zhao , S. -S. Zhao , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , S. Cutini , N. Di Lalla , A. Dinesh , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , S. J. Fegan , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , S. Germani , M. Giliberti , I. A. Grenier , E. Hays , D. Horan , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , S. Maldera , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , M. Negro , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , M. Persic , S. Rainò , B. Rani , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. F. Torres , G. Zaharijas , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaoui , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , A. 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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies Einstein's equations and does not have pathologies outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

GRAVITY: getting to the event horizon of Sgr A*

We present the second-generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY, which currently is in the preliminary design phase. GRAVITY is specifically designed to observe highly relativistic motions of matter close to the event horizon of Sgr A*, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Eisenhauer , G. Perrin , W. Brandner , C. Straubmeier , A. Richichi , S. Gillessen , J. P. Berger , S. Hippler , A. Eckart , M. Schoeller , S. Rabien , F. Cassaing , R. Lenzen , M. Thiel , Y. Clenet , J. R. Ramos , S. Kellner , P. Fedou , H. Baumeister , R. Hofmann , E. Gendron , A. Boehm , H. Bartko , X. Haubois , R. Klein , K. Dodds-Eden , K. Houairi , F. Hormuth , A. Graeter , L. Jocou , V. Naranjo , R. Genzel , P. Kervella , T. Henning , N. Hamaus , S. Lacour , U. Neumann , M. Haug , F. Malbet , W. Laun , J. Kolmeder , T. Paumard , R. -R. Rohloff , O. Pfuhl , K. Perraut , J. Ziegleder , D. Rouan , G. Rousset

Reconstructing Video from Interferometric Measurements of Time-Varying Sources

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) makes it possible to recover images of astronomical sources with extremely high angular resolution. Most recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has extended VLBI to short millimeter wavelengths…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-05 Katherine L. Bouman , Michael D. Johnson , Adrian V. Dalca , Andrew A. Chael , Freek Roelofs , Sheperd S. Doeleman , William T. Freeman

230 GHz VLBI observations of M87: event-horizon-scale structure at the enhanced very-high-energy $\rm \gamma$-ray state in 2012

We report on 230 GHz (1.3 mm) VLBI observations of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope using antennas on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Mt. Graham in Arizona and Cedar Flat in California. For the first time, we have acquired 230 GHz VLBI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Kazunori Akiyama , Ru-Sen Lu , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Avery E. Broderick , Jason Dexter , Kazuhiro Hada , Motoki Kino , Hiroshi Nagai , Mareki Honma , Michael D. Johnson , Juan C. Algaba , Keiichi Asada , Christiaan Brinkerink , Ray Blundell , Geoffrey C. Bower , Roger Cappallo , Geoffrey B. Crew , Matt Dexter , Sergio A. Dzib , Robert Freund , Per Friberg , Mark Gurwell , Paul T. P. Ho , Makoto Inoue , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Laurent Loinard , David MacMahon , Daniel P. Marrone , James M. Moran , Masanori Nakamura , Neil M. Nagar , Gisela Ortiz-Leon , Richard Plambeck , Nicolas Pradel , Rurik A. Primiani , Alan E. E. Rogers , Alan L. Roy , Jason SooHoo , Jonathan-León Tavares , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Jan Wagner , Jonathan Weintroub , Paul Yamaguchi , Ken H. Young , Anton Zensus , Lucy M. Ziurys

A magnetized torus for modeling Sgr A* millimeter images and spectra

Context. The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*, in the centre of our Galaxy has the largest angular size in the sky among all astrophysical black holes. Its shadow, assuming no rotation, spans ~ 50 microarcsec. Resolving such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 F. H. Vincent , W. Yan , O. Straub , A. A. Zdziarski , M. A. Abramowicz

Hunting for dark halo substructure using submilliarcsecond-scale observations of macrolensed radio jets

Dark halo substructure may reveal itself through secondary, small-scale gravitational lensing effects on light sources that are macrolensed by a foreground galaxy. Here, we explore the prospects of using Very Long Baseline Interferometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Erik Zackrisson , Saghar Asadi , Kaj Wiik , Jakob Jönsson , Pat Scott , Kanan K. Datta , Martina M. Friedrich , Hannes Jensen , Joel Johansson , Claes-Erik Rydberg , Andreas Sandberg

Black Hole Parameter Estimation from Its Shadow

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87* as an asymmetric bright emission ring with a diameter of $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

Supermassive black-hole imaging with a self-consistent electron-temperature prescription

The recent 230 GHz observations by the Event Horizon Telescope have resolved the innermost structure of the M87 galaxy, revealing a ring-like feature consistent with thermal synchrotron emission from a magnetized torus surrounding a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Claudio Meringolo , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Sergio Servidio , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla

Detecting Black Hole Occultations by Stars with Space Interferometric Telescopes

We show that the occultation of Sagittarius A* by stars can be detected with space-based or space-ground very-long-baseline-interferometers (SVLBIs), with an expected event rate that is high due to relativistic precession. We compute the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-15 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

Identifying Black Holes Through Space Telescopes and Deep Learning

The EHT has captured a series of images of black holes. These images could provide valuable information about the gravitational environment near the event horizon. However, accurate detection and parameter estimation for candidate black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Yeqi Fang , Wei Hong , Jun Tao

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the jet in M87

(abridged) The connection between black hole, accretion disk, and radio jet can be best constrained by fitting models to observations of nearby low luminosity galactic nuclei, in particular the well studied sources Sgr~A* and M87. There has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-02 Monika Moscibrodzka , Heino Falcke , Hotaka Shiokawa

The Center of the Milky Way from Radio to X-rays

We summarize basic observational results on Sagittarius~A* obtained from the radio, infrared and X-ray domain. Infrared observations have revealed that a dusty S-cluster object (DSO/G2) passes by SgrA*, the central super-massive black hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-10 A. Eckart , M. Valencia-S. , B. Shahzamanian , M. Garcia-Marin , F. Peissker , M. Zajacek , M. Parsa , B. Jalali , R. Saalfeld , N. Sabha , S. Yazic , G. D. Karssen , A. Borkar , K. Markakis , J. A. Zensus , C. Straubmeier

Detection of an orthogonal alignment between parsec scale AGN jets and their host galaxies

The relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an area of active research. One way to investigate this is to compare parsec-scale jets formed by SMBHs with the projected shape of their kiloparsec-scale host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 D. Fernández Gil , J. A. Hodgson , B. L'Huillier , J. Asorey , C. Saulder , K. Finner , M. J. Jee , D. Parkinson , F. Combes

Images and photon ring signatures of thick disks around black holes

High-frequency very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations can now resolve the horizon-scale emission from sources in the immediate vicinity of nearby supermassive black holes. Future space-VLBI observations will access highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Frederic H. Vincent , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Maciek Wielgus

Black hole Spin Measurement Based on Time-domain VLBI Observations of Infalling Gas Cloud

The black hole spacetime is described by general relativity and characterized by two quantities: the black hole mass and spin. Black hole spin measurement requires information from the vicinity of the event horizon, which is spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Kotaro Moriyama , Shin Mineshige , Mareki Honma , Kazunori Akiyama

Detection of intrinsic source structure at ~3 Schwarzschild radii with Millimeter-VLBI observations of SAGITTARIUS A*

We report results from very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center, Sgr A*, at 1.3 mm (230 GHz). The observations were performed in 2013 March using six VLBI stations in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Ru-Sen Lu , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Alan L. Roy , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , Kazunori Akiyama , Dimitrios Psaltis , Walter Alef , Keiichi Asada , Christopher Beaudoin , Alessandra Bertarini , Lindy Blackburn , Ray Blundell , Geoffrey C. Bower , Christiaan Brinkerink , Avery E. Broderick , Roger Cappallo , Geoffrey B. Crew , Jason Dexter , Matt Dexter , Heino Falcke , Robert Freund , Per Friberg , Christopher H. Greer , Mark A. Gurwell , Paul T. P. Ho , Mareki Honma , Makoto Inoue , Junhan Kim , James Lamb , Michael Lindqvist , David Macmahon , Daniel P. Marrone , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Karl M. Menten , James M. Moran , Neil M. Nagar , Richard L. Plambeck , Rurik A. Primiani , Alan E. E. Rogers , Eduardo Ros , Helge Rottmann , Jason SooHoo , Justin Spilker , Jordan Stone , Peter Strittmatter , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Laura Vertatschitsch , Jan Wagner , Jonathan Weintroub , Melvyn Wright , Ken H. Young , J. Anton Zensus , Lucy M. Ziurys

Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission

High-resolution, multi-wavelength, and time-domain observations of the Galactic centre black hole candidate, Sgr A*, allow for a direct test of contemporary accretion theory. To date, all models have assumed alignment between the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Dexter , P. Chris Fragile

Photon ring autocorrelations from gravitational fluctuations around a black hole

The images of supermassive black holes in M87 and our galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) might open up a new way for exploring black hole physics at the horizon scale. Theoretically, this could provide insights into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Qing-Hua Zhu

The road towards imaging a black hole -- a personal perspective

The images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration mark a special milestone in the history of the subject. For the first time we are able to see the shadow of black holes, testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Heino Falcke