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We search for the gamma-ray counterparts of stellar-mass black holes using long-term Fermi archive to investigate the electrostatic acceleration of electrons and positrons in the vicinity of the event horizon, by applying the pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Albert K. H Kong , Satoki Matsushita , Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Makoto Inoue , Pak-Hin T. Tam

The Event Horizon Telescope recently captured images of the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy, which show a ring-like emission structure with the South side only slightly brighter than the North side. This relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Lia Medeiros , Chi-Kwan Chan , Ramesh Narayan , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

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 a talk given in 2013, S. Hawking conjectured that the event horizon of black holes does not exist and suggested redefining black holes as bound states of the gravitational field. Inspired by this idea, we investigated the coupling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 X. E. Wang

Synthesis imaging of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) rests on the assumption of a stationary image. We explore the limitations of this assumption using high-cadence GRMHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Lia Medeiros , Chi-kwan Chan , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Junhan Kim , Daniel P. Marrone , Aleksander Sadowski

Observations of supermassive black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope reveal significant inhomogeneities, most likely related to density and magnetic field perturbations. To model these features, we conduct high-resolution 2D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Giuseppe Ficarra , Michele Arcuri , Rita Megale , Sergio Servidio

Simulating black hole (BH) accretion and feedback from the horizon to galactic scales is extremely challenging, as it involves a vast range of scales. Recently, our multizone method has successfully achieved global dynamical steady-states…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Kung-Yi Su , Priyamvada Natarajan

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometer built to image supermassive black holes on event-horizon scales. In this paper, we investigate candidate sites for an expanded EHT array with improved imaging…

This paper investigates the observational appearances of an inner extremal regular black hole(IERBH) illuminated by various types of accretion models. The study reveals that when the BH is illuminated by specific accretion flows, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Dan Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Xi-Jing Wang , Qiyuan Pan , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed in 2017 the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at a frequency of 228.1 GHz ($\lambda$=1.3 mm). The fundamental physics tests that even a single pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Pablo Torne , Kuo Liu , Ralph P. Eatough , Jompoj Wongphechauxsorn , James M. Cordes , Gregory Desvignes , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Michael Kramer , Scott M. Ransom , Shami Chatterjee , Robert Wharton , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Lindy Blackburn , Michael Janssen , Chi-kwan Chan , Geoffrey B. Crew , Lynn D. Matthews , Ciriaco Goddi , Helge Rottmann , Jan Wagner , Salvador Sanchez , Ignacio Ruiz , Federico Abbate , Geoffrey C. Bower , Juan J. Salamanca , Arturo I. Gomez-Ruiz , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Wu Jiang , Ru-Sen Lu , Ue-Li Pen , Alexander W. Raymond , Lijing Shao , Zhiqiang Shen , Gabriel Paubert , Miguel Sanchez-Portal , Carsten Kramer , Manuel Castillo , Santiago Navarro , David John , Karl-Friedrich Schuster , Michael D. Johnson , Kazi L. J. 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Alyson Ford , Marianna Foschi , Raquel Fraga-Encinas , William T. Freeman , Per Friberg , Christian M. Fromm , Antonio Fuentes , Peter Galison , Charles F. Gammie , Roberto Garcia , Olivier Gentaz , Boris Georgiev , Roman Gold , Jose L. Gomez , Minfeng Gu , Mark Gurwell , Kazuhiro Hada , Daryl Haggard , Kari Haworth , Michael H. Hecht , Ronald Hesper , Dirk Heumann , Luis C. Ho , Paul Ho , Mareki Honma , Chih-Wei L. Huang , Lei Huang , David H. Hughes , Shiro Ikeda , C. M. Violette Impellizzeri , Makoto Inoue , Sara Issaoun , David J. James , Buell T. Jannuzi , Britton Jeter , Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales , Svetlana Jorstad , Abhishek V. Joshi , Taehyun Jung , Mansour Karami , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Mark Kettenis , Dong-Jin Kim , Jae-Young Kim , Jongsoo Kim , Junhan Kim , Motoki Kino , Jun Yi Koay , Prashant Kocherlakota , Yutaro Kofuji , Shoko Koyama , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Noemi La Bella , Tod R. Lauer , Daeyoung Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Po Kin Leung , Aviad Levis , Zhiyuan Li , Rocco Lico , Greg Lindahl , Michael Lindqvist , Mikhail Lisakov , Jun Liu , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Wen-Ping Lo , Andrei P. Lobanov , Laurent Loinard , Colin J. Lonsdale , Nicholas R. MacDonald , Jirong Mao , Nicola Marchili , Sera Markoff , Daniel P. Marrone , Alan P. Marscher , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Satoki Matsushita , Lia Medeiros , Karl M. Menten , Daniel Michalik , Izumi Mizuno , Yosuke Mizuno , James M. Moran , Kotaro Moriyama , Monika Moscibrodzka , Cornelia Muller , Hendrik Muller , Alejandro Mus , Gibwa Musoke , Ioannis Myserlis , Andrew Nadolski , Hiroshi Nagai , Neil M. Nagar , Masanori Nakamura , Ramesh Narayan , Gopal Narayanan , Iniyan Natarajan , Antonios Nathanail , Joey Neilsen , Roberto Neri , Chunchong Ni , Aristeidis Noutsos , Michael A. Nowak , Junghwan Oh , Hiroki Okino , Hector Olivares , Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon , Tomoaki Oyama , Feryal Ozel , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Georgios Filippos Paraschos , Jongho Park , Harriet Parsons , Nimesh Patel , Dominic W. Pesce , Vincent Pietu , Richard Plambeck , Aleksandar PopStefanija , Oliver Porth , Felix M. Potzl , Ben Prather , Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez , Dimitrios Psaltis , Hung-Yi Pu , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Ramprasad Rao , Mark G. Rawlings , Luciano Rezzolla , Angelo Ricarte , Bart Ripperda , Freek Roelofs , Alan Rogers , Eduardo Ros , Cristina Romero-Cañizales , Arash Roshanineshat , Alan L. Roy , Chet Ruszczyk , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Mahito Sasada , Kaushik Satapathy , Tuomas Savolainen , F. Peter Schloerb , Jonathan Schonfeld , Zhiqiang Shen , Des Small , Bong Won Sohn , Jason SooHoo , Kamal Souccar , He Sun , Alexandra J. Tetarenko , Paul Tiede , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Teresa Toscano , Efthalia Traianou , Tyler Trent , Sascha Trippe , Matthew Turk , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Daniel R. van Rossum , Jesse Vos , Derek Ward-Thompson , John Wardle , Jonathan Weintroub , Norbert Wex , Maciek Wielgus , Kaj Wiik , Gunther Witzel , Michael F. Wondrak , George N. Wong , Qingwen Wu , Nitika Yadlapalli , Paul Yamaguchi , Aristomenis Yfantis , Doosoo Yoon , Andre Young , Ken Young , Ziri Younsi , Wei Yu , Feng Yuan , Ye-Fei Yuan , J. Anton Zensus , Shuo Zhang , Guang-Yao Zhao , Shan-Shan Zhao

Research on the observational appearance of black holes, both in general relativity and modified gravity, has been in full swing since the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration announced photos of M87$^{*}$ and Sagittarius A$^{*}$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng , Xin Wu , Enwei Liang

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

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope of the Universe at $z\gtrsim 4$ have shown that massive black holes (MBHs) appear extremely overmassive compared to the local correlation for active galactic nuclei. In some cases, these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-11 Alessandro Lupi , Alessandro Trinca , Marta Volonteri , Massimo Dotti , Chiara Mazzucchelli

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz have now imaged polarized emission around the supermassive black hole in M87 on event-horizon scales. This polarized synchrotron radiation probes the structure of magnetic fields and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-06 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The nature of black holes (BHs) and their potential deviations from classical General Relativity (GR) remain central questions in modern astrophysics. Nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) offers a promising mechanism to construct regular BHs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Javokhir Sharipov , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov

Using very long baseline interferometry, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has resolved the shadows of two supermassive black holes. Model comparison is traditionally performed in image space, where imaging algorithms…

How the supermassive black hole SgrA* in the Milky Way Center looks like for a distant observer? It depends on the black hole highlighting by the surrounding hot matter. The black hole shadow (the photon capture cross-section) would be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-14 Vyacheslav Dokuchaev

The very latest observation of $M87$ supermassive black hole (BH) by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides the accretion onto BHs is an interesting study in the theory of gravity. We study the geodesics structure and accretion near a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 A. Ditta , G. Mustafa , G. Abbas , Farruh Atamurotov , Kimet Jusufi

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, provides unique opportunities to study black hole accretion, jet formation, and gravitational physics. The rapid structural changes in Sgr A*'s emission pose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin

The need for a consistent quantum evolution for black holes has led to proposals that their semiclassical description is modified not just near the singularity, but at horizon or larger scales. If such modifications extend beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Steven B. Giddings , Dimitrios Psaltis