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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…

Originally developed to image the shadow region of the central black hole in Sagittarius A* and in the nearby galaxy M87, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides deep, very high angular resolution data on other AGN sources too. The…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global very long baseline interferometry array operating at millimetre wavelengths, is spatially resolving the immediate environments of black holes for the first time. The current observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Ayman Bin Kamruddin , Jason Dexter

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the shadow of the supermassive black hole in M87. A library of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GMRHD) models was fit to the observational data, providing constraints on black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Freek Roelofs , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Jordy Davelaar , Michael Janssen , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla , Heino Falcke

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global 230 GHz VLBI array, achieves an angular resolution of ${\approx} 20\,\mu{\rm as}$, sufficient to resolve the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). This resolution may soon enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Ziyan Zhu , Michael D. Johnson , Ramesh Narayan

The observation of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87$^{*}$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is sensitive to the spacetime geometry near the circular photon orbit and beyond, and it thus has the potential to test general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Guillermo Lara , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

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

Horizon-scale images of black holes (BHs) and their shadows have opened an unprecedented window onto tests of gravity and fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. We consider a wide range of well-motivated deviations from classical…

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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) M87* and Sgr A*, revealing a dark brightness depression, namely the black hole shadow, whose shape and size may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-27 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M 87 provided the first image of the accretion environment on horizon scales. General relativity predicts that the image of the shadow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Paul Tiede , Avery E. Broderick , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Andrew Chael

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…

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

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

The Event Horizon Telescope has produced resolved images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87*, which present the largest shadows on the sky. In the next decade, technological improvements and extensions to the array will enable…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global sub-millimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, is now resolving the innermost regions around the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87. Using black hole images from both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Angelo Ricarte , Jason Dexter

The images of supermassive black holes captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have allowed us to have access to the physical processes that occur in the vicinity of the event horizons of these objects. This has enabled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Gaston Giribet , Emilio Rubin de Celis , Pedro Schmied

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 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 (EHT) is a project to assemble a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network of mm wavelength dishes that can resolve strong field General Relativistic signatures near a supermassive black hole. As planned,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ru-Sen Lu , Avery E. Broderick , Fabien Baron , John D. Monnier , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Victor Pankratius
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