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High-resolution imaging of supermassive black holes is now possible, with new applications to testing general relativity and horizon-scale accretion and relativistic jet formation processes. Over the coming decade, the EHT will propose to…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), now with its first ever image of the photon ring around the supermassive black hole of M87, provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Long Baseline…

General relativity's prediction that all black holes are described by the Kerr metric, irrespective of their size, can now be empirically tested using electromagnetic observations of supermassive black holes and gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-20 Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Aaron Held

During the glorious success of the EHT in providing the first image of a black hole, numerous papers have been published about the effect of different astrophysical environments on black hole geometry. Motivated by the work on how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Reggie C. Pantig

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

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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observation unveiled the first image of supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing a shadow of diameter $\theta_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as with fractional deviation from the Schwarzschild black hole shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) from the ground at millimeter wavelengths can resolve the black hole shadow around two supermassive black holes, Sagittarius A* and M87. The addition of modest telescopes in space would allow the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Vincent L. Fish , Maura Shea , Kazunori Akiyama

Motivated by the first image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), there has been a surge of research using observations of black hole shadows to test theories of gravity. In this paper, we carry out a study related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Qi Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen-Hao Xie , Qi-Quan Li

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lia Medeiros , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

The direct imaging of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) enables strong-field tests of gravity. We study the cosmological evolution and the black-hole shadow radius in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global very-long baseline interferometer capable of probing potential deviations from the Kerr metric, which is believed to provide the unique description of astrophysical black holes. Here we report an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-02 Tim Johannsen , Carlos Wang , Avery E. Broderick , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Vincent L. Fish , Abraham Loeb , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as the existence of the event horizon, the accretion processes as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Neil Nagar , Fu-Guo Xie , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan

Reconstructing images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, depends on a prior to impose desired image statistics. However, given the impossibility of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Berthy T. Feng , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

This paper is devoted to studying the observational signatures modified by Bardeen black hole via shadow and strong lensing observations. Influence of the modified Bardeen black hole parameters q, g, and the parameter $\mu$ on the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Amna Ali , Ujjal Debnath

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…

The unprecedented image of the M87* supermassive black hole has sparked some controversy over its usefulness as a test of the general relativistic Kerr metric. The criticism is mainly related to the black hole's quasi-circular shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

In general relativity, the angular radius of the shadow of a black hole is primarily determined by its mass-to-distance ratio and depends only weakly on its spin and inclination. If general relativity is violated, however, the shadow size…

Interferometers, such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), do not directly observe the images of sources but rather measure their Fourier components at discrete spatial frequencies up to a maximum value set by the longest baseline in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Tod R. Lauer , Chi-Kwan Chan , Feryal Ozel