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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will soon provide the first high-resolution images of the Galactic Centre supermassive black hole (SMBH) candidate Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), enabling us to probe gravity in the strong-field regime. Besides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 C. M. Fromm , Y. Mizuno , Z. Younsi , H. Olivares , O. Porth , M. De Laurentis , H. Falcke , M. Kramer , L. Rezzolla

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced using 230 GHz observations performed in 2017 April.…

Black hole accretion is one of nature's most efficient energy extraction processes. When gas falls in, a significant fraction of its gravitational binding energy is either converted into radiation or flows outwards in the form of black…

The black hole in the center of the Galaxy, associated with the compact source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is predicted to cast a shadow upon the emission of the surrounding plasma flow, which encodes the influence of general relativity in the…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as the existence of the event horizon, the accretion processes as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Neil Nagar , Fu-Guo Xie , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

Jet models of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data should also conform to the observed jet profiles just downstream. This study evaluates conformance of models of black hole jets to images of the innermost jet of M87. This is a basic test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Brian Punsly

Context. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently obtained first images of the surroundings of the supermassive compact object M87* at the center of the galaxy M87. Aims. We want to develop a simple analytic disk model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 F. H. Vincent , M. Wielgus , M. A. Abramowicz , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -P. Lasota , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on angular scales comparable to that of the general…

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

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) achieved the realization of an image of the supermassive black hole $\textrm{Sgr~A}^\star$ showing an angular shadow diameter $\mathcal{D}= 48.7 \pm 7\mu as$ and the fractional deviation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Chakhchi , H. El Moumni , K. Masmar

Reconstructing images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, depends on a prior to impose desired image statistics. However, given the impossibility of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Berthy T. Feng , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

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

The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium is on the verge to provide the first telescopic image of massive black holes SgrA* and M87* surrounded by accretion disks, at a resolution scale comparable to the size of their event horizons. Well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Jean-Pierre Luminet

In light of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black holes $\textrm{Sgr A}^\star$ and $\textrm{M87}^\star$, we explore a potential supersymmetry suspicion within the observational data. Specifically, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 L. Chakhchi , H. El Moumni , K. Masmar

We show how Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the supermassive object at the center of M87 can constrain deviations from General Relativity (GR) in a relatively model-independent way. We focus on the class of theories whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Markus Rummel , C. P. Burgess

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter-wavelength, very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment that is capable of observing black holes with horizon-scale resolution. Early observations have revealed variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-20 Junhan Kim , Daniel P. Marrone , Chi-kwan Chan , Lia Medeiros , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), with $\sim$20 $\mu$as high angular resolution, recently resolved the millimeter image of the suppermassive black hole in the Galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This opens a new window to study the plasma on horizon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Shan-Shan Zhao , Lei Huang , Rusen Lu , Zhiqiang Shen

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has successfully produced images of two supermassive black holes, enabling novel tests of black holes and their accretion flows on horizon scales. The EHT has so far published total intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-27 Angelo Ricarte , Michael D. Johnson , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Razieh Emami

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently observed the image and shadow of the supermassive compact object Sagittarius A$^*$ (Sgr A$^*$). According to the EHT collaboration, the observed image is consistent with the expected appearance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-29 Rajibul Shaikh