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Black hole event horizons, causally separating the external universe from compact regions of spacetime, are one of the most exotic predictions of General Relativity (GR). Until recently, their compact size has prevented efforts to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb , Ramesh Narayan

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-VLTI instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a "hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Lin Xi , Yuan Feng

Recent near-IR (NIR) and X-ray observations of Sagittarius A*'s spectrum have yielded several strong constraints on the transient energization mechanism, justifying a re-examination of the stochastic acceleration model proposed previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Siming Liu , Fulvio Melia , Vahe Petrosian

The hierarchical nature of galaxy formation suggests that a supermassive black hole binary could exist in our galactic center. We propose a new approach to constraining the possible orbital configuration of such a binary companion to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 Smadar Naoz , Clifford M. Will , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Aurelien Hees , Andrea M. Ghez , Tuan Do

Deep infra-red observations and long-term monitoring programs have provided dynamical evidence for a supermassive black hole of mass 3.e6 solar masses associated with the radio source Sagitarrius A* at the center of our Galaxy. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brad Hansen , Milos Milosavljevic

We study short-timescale 340 GHz flux-density variability of Sgr A* using ALMA Cycle 3 observations. Careful self-calibration enabled 10 s snapshot imaging with very high effective image-domain SNR, allowing high-cadence monitoring of…

Sagittarius~A$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits flares across various wavelengths, yet their origins remain elusive. We performed 3D two-temperature General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Feng Yuan , Xi Lin , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi

The measurement of relativistic effects around the galactic center may allow in the near future to strongly constrain the parameters of the supermassive black hole likely present at the galactic center (Sgr A*). As a by-product of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir , A. F. Zakharov

We present proper motions for $>$40 stars at projected distances $\leq1.2''$ from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). We find evidence on a $\geq2\sigma$ level for radial anisotropy of the cluster of stars within $1''$ of Sgr A*. We find no evidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Schoedel , R. Genzel , T. Ott , A. Eckart , N. Mouawad , T. Alexander

In the present paper some consequences of the hypothesis that the supermassive compact object in the Galaxy centre relates to a class of objects without event horizon are examined. The possibility of the existence of such objects was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. Verozub

We report new observations with the Very Large Array, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and Submillimeter Array at frequencies from 1.0 to 355 GHz of the Galactic Center black hole, Sagittarius A*. These observations were conducted between…

We conducted millimeter continuum observations for samples of nearby early-type galaxies (21 sources) and nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; 16 sources) at 100 GHz (3 mm) using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Akihiro Doi , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Hiroshi Nagai , Kotaro Kohno , Seiji Kameno

The recent detection of significant linear polarization at mm and sub-mm wavelengths in the spectrum of Sgr A* (if confirmed) will be a useful probe of the conditions within several Schwarzschild radii ($r_S$) of the event horizon at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Robert Coker

The Galactic Centre has been studied with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) for over 10 years, revealing a bright, complex gamma-ray morphology. Besides a strong point-like very-high-energy gamma-ray source coincident with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 R. D. Parsons , M. Holler , J. King , V. Lefranc , E. Moulin , H. Poon , J. Veh , A. Viana

The region bounded by the inner tens of light years at the center of the Milky Way contains five principal components that coexist within the central deep gravitational potential well. These constituents are a black hole candidate (Sgr~A*)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Yusef-Zade , F. Melia , M. Wardle

We present results of our Chandra observation with the ACIS-I instrument centered on the position of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the compact nonthermal radio source associated with the massive black hole (MBH) at the dynamical center of the…

Recently Bower et al. (1999b) have reported the detection of circular polarization from the Galactic Center black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*. We provide an independent confirmation of this detection, and provide some analysis on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J Sault , J. -P. Macquart

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

Observations in the near-infrared domain showed the presence of the flat core of bright late-type stars inside $\sim 0.5\,{\rm pc}$ from the Galactic center supermassive black hole (Sgr A*), while young massive OB/Wolf-Rayet stars form a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Michal Zajaček , Anabella Araudo , Vladimír Karas , Bożena Czerny , Andreas Eckart

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards