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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration produced the first image of the apparent shadow of the central black hole of Sagittarius\,A$^*$ (\sgra). \sgra source structure varies significantly on timescales shorter than the duration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Braden J. Marazzo-Nowicki , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michael D. Johnson

Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of the massive black hole lurking at the Galactic Center. The mass of data collected in one night by the Event Horizon Telescope network, exceeding everything…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jean-Pierre Luminet

The images of Sagittarius A${}^*$ published by the Event Horizon Telescope (ETH) Collaboration in 2022 present features that were associated with an emission ring consistent with what is expected from an accretion disc surrounding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Ezequiel F. Boero , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

The Event Horizon Telescope recently observed the first shadow of a black hole. Images like this can potentially be used to test or constrain theories of gravity and deepen the understanding in plasma physics at event horizon scales, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-28 Jeffrey van der Gucht , Jordy Davelaar , Luc Hendriks , Oliver Porth , Hector Olivares , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Heino Falcke

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

We present Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) 1.3 mm measurements of the radio source located at the position of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), collected during the 2017 April 5--11 campaign. The observations were carried…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Black holes are among the most compelling predictions of general relativity (GR) and are now strongly supported by observations from gravitational-wave detectors and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). While standard black hole solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 A. Errehymy , Y. Khedif , M. Daoud , Y. Myrzakulov , O. Donmez , B. Turimov

In 2017 April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the near-horizon region around the supermassive black hole at the core of the M87 galaxy. These 1.3 mm wavelength observations revealed a compact asymmetric ring-like source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is expected to soon produce polarimetric images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the neighboring galaxy M87. There are indications that this black hole is rapidly spinning. General relativity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 Delilah Gates , Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca , Yichen Shi , Andrew Strominger

We report on the observations of the quasar NRAO 530 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on 2017 April 5-7, when NRAO 530 was used as a calibrator for the EHT observations of Sagittarius A*. At z=0.902 this is the most distant object…

We consider the observational signatures of reflective naked singularities as seen by the current and next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The reflective naked singularities lead to a distinctive morphology of their accretion disk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Valentin Deliyski , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

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

We propose a new imaging technique for radio and optical/infrared interferometry. The proposed technique reconstructs the image from the visibility amplitude and closure phase, which are standard data products of short-millimeter very long…

(abridged) In a series of publications, we describe a comprehensive comparison of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data with theoretical models of Sgr A* and M87*. Here, we report on improvements made to our observational data reduction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Janssen , C. -k. Chan , J. Davelaar , I. Natarajan , H. Olivares , B. Ripperda , J. Röder , M. Rynge , M. Wielgus

The hitherto unprecedented angular resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has created exciting opportunities in the search for new physics. Recently, the linear polarization of radiation emitted near the supermassive black hole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-23 Yifan Chen , Yuxin Liu , Ru-Sen Lu , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Xiao Xue , Qiang Yuan , Yue Zhao

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global very-long baseline interferometer capable of probing potential deviations from the Kerr metric, which is believed to provide the unique description of astrophysical black holes. Here we report an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-02 Tim Johannsen , Carlos Wang , Avery E. Broderick , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Vincent L. Fish , Abraham Loeb , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides an avenue to study black hole accretion flows on event-horizon scales. Fitting a semi-analytical model to EHT observations requires the construction of synthetic images, which is computationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-11 Ali SaraerToosi , Avery Broderick

The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is to provide spatially resolved images of Sgr A*, the source associated with the Galactic Center black hole. Because Sgr A* varies on timescales short compared to an EHT observing campaign, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Hotaka Shiokawa , Charles F. Gammie , Sheperd S. Doeleman

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

Recent developments in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have made it possible for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to resolve the innermost accretion flows of the largest supermassive black holes on the sky. The sparse nature of…