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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Arundhati Dasgupta

Quantum gravity corrections to accretion onto a Schwarzschild black hole are considered in the context of asymptotically safe scenario. The possible positions of the critical points are discussed and the general conditions for critical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Rong-Jia Yang

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the horizon-scale emission around the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) favor accretion flow models with a jet component. However, this jet has not been conclusively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-13 Erandi Chavez , Sara Issaoun , Michael D. Johnson , Paul Tiede , Christian Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno

Searching for radio pulsars orbiting around the Galactic centre black hole (BH), Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), represents a holy grail goal for large-area radio telescopes, in particular for the Square Kilometre Array. Follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Lijing Shao , Zexin Hu

Upcoming VLBI observations will resolve nearby supermassive black holes, most notably Sagittarius A* and M87, on event horizon-scales. Recent observations of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope have revealed horizon-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Hector Olivares

In this paper, we would like to obtain quantum gravity effects by using Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz black hole. We consider logarithmic corrected thermodynamics quantities and investigate the effects of logarithmic correction term. Logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-08 B. Pourhassan , S. Upadhyay , H. Saadat , H. Farahani

Recently, Vagnozzi and Visinelli's work [Phys. Rev. D 100, 024020 (2020)] reveals that M87*'s shadow establishes an upper limit of $l \lesssim 170$ AU, where $l$ is the AdS$_5$ curvature radius and 1 AU is one astronomical unit. The Event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Di Wu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed the horizon-scale radiation of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, offering a new platform to test gravitational theories. The next step involves studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Kotaro Moriyama , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal

We describe a non-perturbative approach to studying the gravitational collapse of a scalar field in spherical symmetry with quantum gravity corrections. Quantum effects are described by a phase space function that modifies the constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Andreas Kreienbuehl , Viqar Husain , Sanjeev S. Seahra

In this paper, gravitational lensing scenario due to the R-charged black hole of five dimensional supergravity investigated. We study the effective potential of traveling photons near the R-charged black hole and find some stable orbits for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 J. Naji

The Galactic center is an ideal laboratory to study strong-field general relativistic phenomena, as the supermassive black hole Sgr A* has the biggest angular Schwarzschild radius among all black holes. This article presents three different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-04 F. H. Vincent , E. Gourgoulhon , O. Straub , M. Abramowicz , J. Novak , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

Ongoing millimeter VLBI observations with the Event Horizon Telescope allow unprecedented study of the innermost portion of black hole accretion flows. Interpreting the observations requires relativistic, time-dependent physical modeling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Dexter , Eric Agol , P. Chris Fragile , Jonathan C. McKinney

First sketch of black hole from M87 galaxy was obtained by Event Horizon Telescope, recently. As appearance of black hole shadow reflects space-time geometry of black holes, observations of black hole shadow may be a promising way to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-30 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

The problem of the event horizon in relativistic gravity is discussed. Singular solutions in general relativity are well known. The Schwarschild metric of a spherical mass is singular at zero ($r = 0$) and at the event horizon ($r = r_g$).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Svetlana Andrusenko , Daniil Krichevskiy , Valentin Rudenko

We compute the length and timescales associated with resonant orbits in the Kerr Metric for all orbital and spin parameters. Resonance induced effects are potentially observable when the Event Horizon telescope resolves the inner structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jeandrew Brink , Marisa Geyer , Tanja Hinderer

The discovery of radio pulsars (PSRs) around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galactic Center (GC), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), will have significant implications for tests of gravity. In this paper, we predict restrictions on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Yiming Dong , Lijing Shao , Zexin Hu , Xueli Miao , Ziming Wang

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

This chapter provides a detailed overview of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, located in the dense Galactic Center region approximately 8 kpc from Earth. Despite its relatively low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-27 Anna Ciurlo , Mark R. Morris

The impressive images from the Event Horizon Telescope sharpen the conflict between our observations of gravitational phenomena and the principles of quantum mechanics. Two related scenarios for reconciling quantum mechanics with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Steven B. Giddings

Black holes are probably among the most fascinating objects populating our universe. Their characteristic features found within general relativity, encompassing spacetime singularities, event horizons, and black hole thermodynamics, provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Benjamin Koch , Frank Saueressig