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Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been successfully imaged at a resolution under 10 gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Dhanya G. Nair , Neil M. Nagar , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Maciek Wielgus , Vicente Arratia , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Xinyue A. Zhang , Angelo Ricarte , Silpa S. , Joaquín Hernández-Yévenes , Nicole M. Ford , Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Mark Gurwell , Roman Burridge , Dominic W. Pesce , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Jae-Young Kim , Daewon Kim , Michael Janssen , Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg , Christian M. Fromm , Deokhyeong Lee , Heino Falcke , Jan Wagner , Geoffrey C. Bower , Anne-Kathrin Baczko , Dong-Jin Kim , Kazunori Akiyama , Keiichi Asada , Patricia Arevalo , Hayley Bignall , Lindy Blackburn , Avery E. Broderick , Andreas Brunthaler , Chi-kwan Chan , Akihiro Doi , Vincent L. Fish , Edward Fomalont , José L. Gómez , Daryl Haggard , Kazuhiro Hada , Rodrigo Herrera-Camus , Daniel Hoak , David Hughes , Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo , Svetlana Jorstad , Michael D. Johnson , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Preeti Kharb , Jun Yi Koay , Shoko Koyama , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Paulina Lira , Michael Lindqvist , Andrei P. Lobanov , Wen-Ping Lo , Ru-Sen Lu , Sera Markoff , Nicholas R. MacDonald , Mary Loli Martínez-Aldama , Lynn D. Matthews , Satoki Matsushita , Mar Mezcua , Monika Moscibrodzka , Hendrik Müller , Hiroshi Nagai , Masanori Nakamura , Priyamvada Natarajan , Gopal Narayanan , Michael A. Nowak , Héctor Raúl Olivares Sánchez , Jongho Park , Dimitrios Psaltis , Hung-Yi Pu , Oliver Porth , Ramprasad Rao , Cormac Reynolds , Rodrigo Reeves , Cristina Romero-Cañizales , Eduardo Ros , Helge Rottmann , Alan L. Roy , Dominik Schleicher , Tuomas Savolainen , C. M. Violette Impellizzeri , Ezequiel Treister , Kaj Wiik , J. Anton Zensus

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) enables the exploration of black hole accretion flows at event-horizon scales. Fitting ray-traced physical models to EHT observations requires the generation of synthetic images, a task that is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Ali SaraerToosi , Avery Broderick

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the shadow of the supermassive black hole in M87. A library of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GMRHD) models was fit to the observational data, providing constraints on black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Freek Roelofs , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Jordy Davelaar , Michael Janssen , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla , Heino Falcke

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

Images of the linear polarization of synchrotron radiation around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identify their projected magnetic field lines and provide key data for understanding the physics of accretion and outflow from supermassive black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Andrew A. Chael , Michael D. Johnson , Ramesh Narayan , Sheperd S. Doeleman , John F. C. Wardle , Katherine L. Bouman

Recent advances in technology coupled with the progress of observational radio astronomy methods resulted in achieving a major milestone of astrophysics - a direct image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole, taken by the Earth-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ben Hudson , Leonid I. Gurvits , Maciek Wielgus , Zsolt Paragi , Lei Liu , Weimin Zheng

Jet models of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data should also conform to the observed jet profiles just downstream. This study evaluates conformance of models of black hole jets to images of the innermost jet of M87. This is a basic test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Brian Punsly

In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided the first-ever event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (BHs) (M87*) and Sagittarius A$^*$ (Sgr A*). The next-generation EHT project is an extension of…

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

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…

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz have now imaged polarized emission around the supermassive black hole in M87 on event-horizon scales. This polarized synchrotron radiation probes the structure of magnetic fields and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-06 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The polarized images of the supermassive black hole Messier 87* (M87*) produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provide a direct view of the near-horizon emission from a black hole accretion and jet system. The EHT theoretical analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michi Baubock , Charles F. Gammie

We demonstrate the unprecedented capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to image the innermost dark matter profile in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 radio galaxy. We present the first model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas Lacroix , Mansour Karami , Avery E. Broderick , Joseph Silk , Celine Boehm

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently produced the first horizon-scale image of a supermassive black hole. Expanding the array to include a 3-meter space telescope operating at >200 GHz enables mass measurements of many black holes,…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced using 230 GHz observations performed in 2017 April.…

(abridged) In a series of publications, we describe a comprehensive comparison of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data with theoretical models of Sgr A* and M87*. Here, we report on improvements made to our observational data reduction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Janssen , C. -k. Chan , J. Davelaar , I. Natarajan , H. Olivares , B. Ripperda , J. Röder , M. Rynge , M. Wielgus

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will soon provide the first high-resolution images of the Galactic Centre supermassive black hole (SMBH) candidate Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), enabling us to probe gravity in the strong-field regime. Besides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 C. M. Fromm , Y. Mizuno , Z. Younsi , H. Olivares , O. Porth , M. De Laurentis , H. Falcke , M. Kramer , L. Rezzolla

Images of black holes encode both astrophysical and gravitational properties. Detecting highly-lensed features in images can differentiate between these two effects. We present an accretion disk emission model coupled to the Adaptive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Tejahni Desire , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Andrew Chael

(Sub) mm VLBI observations are strongly hindered by limited sensitivity, with the fast tropospheric fluctuations being the dominant culprit. We predict great benefits from applying next-generation frequency phase transfer calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 María J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Yoshiharu Asaki