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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…

With the advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a millimeter/sub-millimeter very-long baseline interferometer (VLBI), it has become possible to image a handful of black holes with sub-horizon resolutions. However, these images do not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb , Mark J. Reid

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) has released analyses of reconstructed images of horizon-scale millimeter emission near the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Parts of the analyses made use of a large library of…

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…

We present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby type-1 Seyfert galaxy \object{NGC 1097} using Atacamma Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of dense gas kinematics. Dense molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kyoko Onishi , Satoru Iguchi , Kartik Sheth , Kotaro Kohno

The first image of the black hole (BH) M87* obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has the shape of a crescent extending from the E to WSW position angles, with a tentative 'ESE hotspot'. Assuming that the BH spin vector is aligned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-16 Krzysztof Nalewajko

Submillimeter interferometry has the potential to image supermassive black holes on event horizon scales, providing tests of the theory of general relativity and increasing our understanding of black hole accretion processes. The Event…

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) achieved the realization of an image of the supermassive black hole $\textrm{Sgr~A}^\star$ showing an angular shadow diameter $\mathcal{D}= 48.7 \pm 7\mu as$ and the fractional deviation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Chakhchi , H. El Moumni , K. Masmar

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) 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…

We present measurements of the properties of the central radio source in M87 using Event Horizon Telescope data obtained during the 2017 campaign. We develop and fit geometric crescent models (asymmetric rings with interior brightness…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-08 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The nearby radio galaxy M87 is a prime target for studying black hole accretion and jet formation^{1,2}. Event Horizon Telescope observations of M87 in 2017, at a wavelength of 1.3 mm, revealed a ring-like structure, which was interpreted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Ru-Sen Lu , Keiichi Asada , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Jongho Park , Fumie Tazaki , Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Andrei Lobanov , Kazuhiro Hada , Kazunori Akiyama , Jae-Young Kim , Ivan Marti-Vidal , José L. Gómez , Tomohisa Kawashima , Feng Yuan , Eduardo Ros , Walter Alef , Silke Britzen , Michael Bremer , Avery E. Broderick , Akihiro Doi , Gabriele Giovannini , Marcello Giroletti , Paul T. P. Ho , Mareki Honma , David H. Hughes , Makoto Inoue , Wu Jiang , Motoki Kino , Shoko Koyama , Michael Lindqvist , Jun Liu , Alan P. Marscher , Satoki Matsushita , Hiroshi Nagai , Helge Rottmann , Tuomas Savolainen , Karl-Friedrich Schuster , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Pablo de Vicente , R. Craig Walker , Hai Yang , J. Anton Zensus , Juan Carlos Algaba , Alexander Allardi , Uwe Bach , Ryan Berthold , Dan Bintley , Do-Young Byun , Carolina Casadio , Shu-Hao Chang , Chih-Cheng Chang , Song-Chu Chang , Chung-Chen Chen , Ming-Tang Chen , Ryan Chilson , Tim C. Chuter , John Conway , Geoffrey B. Crew , Jessica T. Dempsey , Sven Dornbusch , Aaron Faber , Per Friberg , Javier González García , Miguel Gómez Garrido , Chih-Chiang Han , Kuo-Chang Han , Yutaka Hasegawa , Ruben Herrero-Illana , Yau-De Huang , Chih-Wei L. Huang , Violette Impellizzeri , Homin Jiang , Hao Jinchi , Taehyun Jung , Juha Kallunki , Petri Kirves , Kimihiro Kimura , Jun Yi Koay , Patrick M. Koch , Carsten Kramer , Alex Kraus , Derek Kubo , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Chao-Te Li , Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Ching-Tang Liu , Kuan-Yu Liu , Wen-Ping Lo , Li-Ming Lu , Nicholas MacDonald , Pierre Martin-Cocher , Hugo Messias , Zheng Meyer-Zhao , Anthony Minter , Dhanya G. Nair , Hiroaki Nishioka , Timothy J. Norton , George Nystrom , Hideo Ogawa , Peter Oshiro , Nimesh A Patel , Ue-Li Pen , Yurii Pidopryhora , Nicolas Pradel , Philippe A. Raffin , Ramprasad Rao , Ignacio Ruiz , Salvador Sanchez , Paul Shaw , William Snow , T. K. Sridharan , Ranjani Srinivasan , Belén Tercero , Pablo Torne , Efthalia Traianou , Jan Wagner , Craig Walther , Ta-Shun Wei , Jun Yang , Chen-Yu Yu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged two supermassive black holes, Messier 87* (M87*) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). The theoretical analyses of each source suggest magnetically arrested…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Kaitlyn M. Shavelle , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) aims to spatially resolve the silhouette (or shadow) of the supermassive black holes in the Galactic Centre (Sgr A$^\star$) and M87. The primary scientific objectives are to test general relativity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Tariq Blecher , Roger Deane , Gianni Bernardi , Oleg Smirnov

We present our dynamical mass constraints on the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early-type galaxy NGC 7052 using high spatial-resolution observations of $^{12}$CO(2-1) emission from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 5 and Cycle 6 observations of CO(2$-$1) and CO(3$-$2) emission at 0.2''$-$0.3'' resolution in two radio-bright, brightest group/cluster early-type galaxies, NGC 315 and…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of two supermassive black holes, Messier~87* (M 87*) and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr A*). The EHT collaboration used these images to indirectly constrain black hole parameters by calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel C. M Palumbo , Zachary Gelles , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Dominic W. Pesce , Andrew Chael , Michael D. Johnson

Starting from the observing campaign in April 2018, the Greenland Telescope (GLT) has been added as a new station of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array. Visibilities on baselines to the GLT, particularly in the North-South direction,…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that has imaged the apparent shadows of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. Polarimetric data from these observations contain…