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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87* provide a means of constraining parameters of both the black hole and its surrounding plasma. However, intrinsic variability of the emitting material introduces a major source of systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Dominic O. Chang , Micael D. Johnson , Paul Tiede

The central radio source in M87 provides the best opportunity to study jet formation because it has a large angular size for the gravitational radius of the black hole and has a bright jet that is well resolved by VLBI observations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 R. Craig Walker , Phillip E. Hardee , Frederick B. Davies , Chun Ly , William Junor

While supermassive black hole masses have been cataloged across cosmic time, only a few dozen of them have robust spin measurements. By extending and improving the existing Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array, the next-generation Event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Angelo Ricarte , Paul Tiede , Razieh Emami , Aditya Tamar , Priyamvada Natarajan

Very strong evidence suggests that Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source at the center of the Milky Way, marks the position of a super massive black hole. The proximity of Sgr A* in combination with its mass makes its apparent event…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-23 Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman

Millimetre-wavelength very long baseline interferometric (mm-VLBI) observations of M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) should provide a unique opportunity to observe and characterize the origins of jet variability already seen at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-17 Britton Jeter , Avery E. Broderick , Roman Gold

This White Paper details the intentions and plans of the East Asian Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) community for pushing the frontiers of millimeter/submillimeter VLBI. To this end, we shall endeavor to actively promote…

The 6 billion solar mass supermassive black hole at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 powers a relativistic jet. Observations at millimeter wavelengths with the Event Horizon Telescope have localized the emission from the base…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Avery E. Broderick , Ramesh Narayan , John Kormendy , Eric S. Perlman , Marcia J. Rieke , Sheperd S. Doeleman

This paper presents an interdisciplinary effort aiming to develop and share sustainable knowledge necessary to analyze, understand, and use published scientific results to advance reproducibility in multi-messenger astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-23 Ria Patel , Brandan Roachell , Silvina Caino-Lores , Ross Ketron , Jacob Leonard , Nigel Tan , Duncan Brown , Ewa Deelman , Michela Taufer

Supermassive black holes, with masses of 10^6 to more than 10^9 solar masses, are among the most spectacular objects in the Universe, and are laboratories for physics in extreme conditions. The primary goal of ARISE (Advanced Radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James S. Ulvestad

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a next-generation space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that will extend the ground-based millimeter/submillimeter arrays into space. The mission, closely aligned with the science…

Radio observations with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provide the highest resolution in astronomy. Combining earth-bound with space-based telescopes and advancing the observations to mm-wavelengths increases the resolution even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Zensus , T. P. Krichbaum , S. Britzen

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

Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* offer valuable insights into their spacetime properties and astrophysical conditions. Utilizing a library of model images (~2 million for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 A. I. Yfantis , S. Zhao , R. Gold , M. Mościbrodzka , A. E. Broderick

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

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) has published the first image of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) obtained via the Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique. In the future, it is expected that additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Christian Fendt , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Christos Vourellis

A mathematically consistent rotating black hole model in loop quantum gravity (LQG) is yet lacking. The scarcity of rotating black hole solutions in LQG substantially hampers the development of testing LQG from observations, e.g., from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Shafqat Ul Islam , Jitendra Kumar , Rahul Kumar Walia , 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 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

Over the past decades, there has been significant progress in our understanding of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that drive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), both from observational and theoretical perspectives. As an iconic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Kazuhiro Hada , Keiichi Asada , Masanori Nakamura , Motoki Kino

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at millimeter (mm) wavelengths is being employed to resolve event-horizon scale structure of the environment surrounding the Milky-Way black hole, at an angular resolution of a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Abraham Loeb