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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global very long baseline interferometric array observing at a wavelength of 1.3 mm, detected the first image of the M87 supermassive black hole (SMBH). M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy at the center of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Abraham Loeb , Mark Reid

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) 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 initial data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on M87$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, provide direct observational information on its mass, spin, and accretion disk properties. A combination of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Hooman Davoudiasl , Peter B. Denton

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

It is thought that the final product of the gravitational collapse is a Kerr black hole and astronomers have discovered several good astrophysical candidates. While there is some indirect evidence suggesting that the latter have an event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-09 Cosimo Bambi

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

The first image of the black hole (BH) M 87* obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has the shape of a crescent extending from the E to WSW position angles, while the observed direction of the large-scale jet is WNW. Images based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-01 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Marek Sikora , Agata Różańska

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently released horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87*. These images are consistently described by an optically thin, lensed accretion flow in the Kerr spacetime. General…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hadrien Paugnat , Alexandru Lupsasca , Frédéric Vincent , Maciek Wielgus

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 advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a millimeter-wave very-long baseline interferometric array, has enabled spatially-resolved studies of the sub-horizon-scale structure for a handful of supermassive black holes. Among these,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Avery E. Broderick , Tim Johannsen , Abraham Loeb , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released an image of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing an angular shadow diameter $d_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as and Schwarzschild shadow deviation $\delta =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Sushant G. Ghosh , Misba Afrin

The EHT observation revealed event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* and these results are consistent with the shadow of a Kerr black hole as predicted by general relativity. However, Kerr-like rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj

The Event Horizon Telescope is a millimeter VLBI array that aims to take the first pictures of the black holes in the center of the Milky Way and of the M87 galaxy, with horizon scale resolution. Measurements of the shape and size of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Dimitrios Psaltis

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

Inspired by the observations of supermassive black hole M87* in \emph{Event Horizon Telescope }(EHT) experiment, a remarkable surge in black hole physics is to use the black hole shadow's observables to distinguish general relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang

General relativity predicts that black hole images ought to display a bright, thin (and as-of-yet-unresolved) ring. This "photon ring" is produced by photons that explore the strong gravity of the black hole, flowing along trajectories that…

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

The images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration mark a special milestone in the history of the subject. For the first time we are able to see the shadow of black holes, testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Heino Falcke