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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, which exhibited a ring of angular diameter $\theta_{d}=42 \pm 3 \mu as$, a circularity deviation $\Delta C \leq 0.1$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

The recently released images of the supermassive black holes in the M87 galaxy and the galaxy of our own make probing black hole spacetimes and testing general relativity (GR) possible. The violation of equatorial reflection symmetry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-04 Che-Yu Chen

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of M87* provides a direct test of strong-field gravity, measuring an angular shadow diameter $\theta_{d}=42\pm 3~\mu\mathrm{as}$ and a circularity deviation $\Delta C\leq 0.1$. Such observations allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Kourosh Nozari , Milad Hajebrahimi , Sara Saghafi , G. Mustafa , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this article, we present the thermodynamic and shadow properties of rotating black holes with global monopole charge. The angular diameter of Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole is 48.7 $\pm$ 7 $\mu as$, which is 8 $kps$ far away having a mass of $M…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali

General Relativity predicts that the emission close to a black hole must be lensed by its strong gravitational field, illuminating the last photon orbit. This results in a dark circular area known as the black hole 'shadow'. The Event…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Leonid Benkevitch , Kazunori Akiyama , Rusen Lu , Shepherd Doeleman , Vincent Fish

The recently obtained hairy Kerr black holes, due to additional sources or surrounding fluid, like dark matter, with conserved energy-momentum tensor, have a deviation $\alpha$ and primary hair $l_0$, apart from rotation parameter $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-01 Misba Afrin , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

We investigate Einstein-\AE ther gravity in light of the recent Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the M87*. The shape and size of the observed black hole shadow contains information of the geometry in its vicinity, and thus one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-20 Mohsen Khodadi , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In recent years, the evidence for the existence of an ultra-compact concentration of dark mass associated with the radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Center has become very strong. However, an unambiguous proof that this object is indeed a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia , Eric Agol

Thanks to unparalleled near-horizon images of the shadows of Messier 87* (M87*) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) delivered by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), two amazing windows opened up to us for the strong-field test of the gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided a new tool for testing the strong-field regime of gravity by imaging the shadows of M87* and Sgr A*. These observations provide the first real opportunity to test whether quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Heena Ali , Sushant G. Ghosh

Observational data of the Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) shadow released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are used to investigate eventual deviations in the black hole shadow radius, aiming to seek physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) coming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 A. S. Lemos , J. A. V. Campos , F. A. Brito

We propose that the ring structure found by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) as the black hole shadow of Sgr A*is an artifact by the bumpy PSF (Point Spread Function) of the EHT2017. The imaging using sparse u-v data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Makoto Miyoshi , Yoshiaki Kato , Junichiro Makino

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the central source in M87 have led to the first measurement of the size of a black-hole shadow. This observation offers a new and clean gravitational test of the black-hole metric in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-05 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Pierre Christian , Feryal Ozel , Kazunori Akiyama , Antxon Alberdi , Walter Alef , Keiichi Asada , Rebecca Azulay , David Ball , Mislav Balokovic , John Barrett , Dan Bintley , Lindy Blackburn , Wilfred Boland , Geoffrey C. Bower , Michael Bremer , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Roger Brissenden , Silke Britzen , Dominique Broguiere , Thomas Bronzwaer , Do-Young Byun , John E. Carlstrom , Andrew Chael , Chi-kwan Chan , Shami Chatterjee , Koushik Chatterjee , Ming-Tang Chen , Yongjun Chen , Ilje Cho , John E. Conway , James M. Cordes , Geoffrey B. Crew , Yuzhu Cui , Jordy Davelaar , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Roger Deane , Jessica Dempsey , Gregory Desvignes , Jason Dexter , Ralph P. Eatough , Heino Falcke , Vincent L. Fish , Ed Fomalont , Raquel Fraga-Encinas , Per Friberg , Christian M. Fromm , Charles F. Gammie , Roberto García , Olivier Gentaz , Ciriaco Goddi , Jose L. Gomez , Minfeng Gu , Mark Gurwell , Kazuhiro Hada , Ronald Hesper , Luis C. Ho , Paul Ho , Mareki Honma , Chih-Wei L. Huang , Lei Huang , David H. Hughes , Makoto Inoue , Sara Issaoun , David J. James , Buell T. Jannuzi , Michael Janssen , Wu Jiang , Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales , Michael D. Johnson , Svetlana Jorstad , Taehyun Jung , Mansour Karami , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Mark Kettenis , Jae-Young Kim , Junhan Kim , Jongsoo Kim , Motoki Kino , Jun Yi Koay , Patrick M. Koch , Shoko Koyama , Michael Kramer , Carsten Kramer , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Tod R. Lauer , Sang-Sung Lee , Yan-Rong Li , Zhiyuan Li , Michael Lindqvist , Rocco Lico , Jun Liu , Kuo Liu , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Wen-Ping Lo , Andrei P. Lobanov , Colin Lonsdale , Ru-Sen Lu , Jirong Mao , Sera Markoff , Daniel P. Marrone , Alan P. Marscher , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Satoki Matsushita , Yosuke Mizuno , Izumi Mizuno , James M. Moran , Kotaro Moriyama , Monika Moscibrodzka , Cornelia Muller , Gibwa Musoke , Alejandro Mus Mejías , Hiroshi Nagai , Neil M. Nagar , Ramesh Narayan , Gopal Narayanan , Iniyan Natarajan , Roberto Neri , Aristeidis Noutsos , Hiroki Okino , Hector Olivares , Tomoaki Oyama , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Jongho Park , Nimesh Patel , Ue-Li Pen , Vincent Pietu , Richard Plambeck , Aleksandar PopStefanija , Ben Prather , Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Ramprasad Rao , Mark G. Rawlings , Alexander W. Raymond , Bart Ripperda , Freek Roelofs , Alan Rogers , Eduardo Ros , Mel Rose , Arash Roshanineshat , Helge Rottmann , Alan L. Roy , Chet Ruszczyk , Benjamin R. Ryan , Kazi L. J. Rygl , Salvador Sanchez , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Mahito Sasada , Tuomas Savolainen , F. Peter Schloerb , Karl-Friedrich Schuster , Lijing Shao , Zhiqiang Shen , Des Small , Bong Won Sohn , Jason SooHoo , Fumie Tazaki , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Pablo Torne , Tyler Trent , Efthalia Traianou , Sascha Trippe , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Daniel R. van Rossum , Jan Wagner , John Wardle , Derek Ward-Thompson , Jonathan Weintroub , Norbert Wex , Robert Wharton , Maciek Wielgus , George N. Wong , Qingwen Wu , Doosoo Yoon , Andre Young , Ken Young , Ziri Younsi , Feng Yuan , Ye-Fei Yuan , Shan-Shan Zhao , the EHT Collaboration

The compact dark objects with very large masses residing at the centres of galaxies are believed to be black holes. Due to the gravitational lensing effect, they would cast a shadow larger than their horizon size over the background, whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lei Huang , Mike Cai , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Feng Yuan

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A$^*$), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observations were conducted in 2017 using a global interferometric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We study, for the first time, the shadow of the supermassive black hole Sgr A$^{*}$ at the center of the Milky Way in dark matter halos. For the Cold Dark Matter and Scalar Field Dark Matter models considered in this work, the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Xian Hou , Zhaoyi Xu , Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang

Several works over the past years have discussed the possibility of testing fundamental physics using Very Long Baseline Interferometry horizon-scale black hole (BH) images, such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of M87$^*$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-31 Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

The recent observation of the shadow of the supermassive compact object M87$^*$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has opened up a new window to probe the strong gravity regime. In this paper, we study shadows cast by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Rajibul Shaikh , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has recently released the first image of a black hole (BH), opening a new window onto tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. In this paper, we derive constraints on the nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese , Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli