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We model the electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with an associated gas component. The method comprises numerical simulations of relativistic binaries and gas coupled with calculations of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tamara Bogdanovic , Britton D. Smith , Steinn Sigurdsson , Michael Eracleous

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

Supermassive black hole binary systems (SMBHBs) are thought to emit the recently discovered nHz gravitational wave background; however, not a single individual nHz source has been confirmed to date. Long-term radio-monitoring at the Owens…

The remarkable results by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration concerning the emission from M87* and, more recently, its polarization properties, require an increasingly accurate modeling of the plasma flows around the accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-23 Niccolò Tomei , Luca Del Zanna , Matteo Bugli , Niccolò Bucciantini

The centers of our galaxy and the nearby Messier 87 are known to contain supermassive black holes, which support accretion flows that radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although the composition of the accreting gas is unknown, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 George N. Wong , Charles F. Gammie

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration produced the first image of the apparent shadow of the central black hole of Sagittarius\,A$^*$ (\sgra). \sgra source structure varies significantly on timescales shorter than the duration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Braden J. Marazzo-Nowicki , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michael D. Johnson

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has mapped the central compact radio source of the elliptical galaxy M87 at 1.3 mm with unprecedented angular resolution. Here we consider the physical implications of the asymmetric ring seen in the 2017…

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

We introduce a new library of 535,194 model images of the supermassive black holes and Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets Sgr A* and M87*, computed by performing general relativistic radiative transfer calculations on general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Richard Qiu , Angelo Ricarte , Ramesh Narayan , George N. Wong , Andrew Chael , Daniel Palumbo

We present a set of eleven two-temperature, radiative, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (2TGRRMHD) simulations of the black hole M87* in the magnetically arrested (MAD) state, surveying different values of the black hole spin $a_*$.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Andrew Chael

With unprecedented angular resolution, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has opened a new era of black holes. We have previously calculated the expected polarization images of M87* with the EHT observations in mind. There, we demonstrated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Yuh Tsunetoe , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Kazunori Akiyama

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…

The galaxy M 87 harbors a kiloparsec-scale relativistic jet, whose origin coincides with a supermassive black hole. Observational mm-VLBI campaigns are capable of resolving the jet-launching region at the scale of the event horizon. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-27 J. Davelaar , H. Olivares , O. Porth , T. Bronzwaer , M. Janssen , F. Roelofs , Y. Mizuno , C. M. Fromm , H. Falcke , L. Rezzolla

The Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on angular scales comparable to that of the general…

The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is to provide spatially resolved images of Sgr A*, the source associated with the Galactic Center black hole. Because Sgr A* varies on timescales short compared to an EHT observing campaign, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Hotaka Shiokawa , Charles F. Gammie , Sheperd S. Doeleman

In this paper we review and discuss some of the intriguing properties of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole candidate Sgr A*. Of all possible black hole sources, the event horizon of Sgr A*, subtends the largest angular scale on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Heino Falcke , Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower , Charles F. Gammie , Monika Moscibrodzka , Dipankar Maitra

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) 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…

In general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, accreted magnetic flux on the black hole horizon episodically decays, during which magnetic reconnection heats up the plasma near the horizon, potentially powering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 He Jia , Bart Ripperda , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Koushik Chatterjee , Alexander Philippov , Matthew Liska

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…

Models of the resolved Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sources Sgr A* and M87* are constrained by observations at multiple wavelengths, resolutions, polarizations, and time cadences. In this paper we compare unresolved circular polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-25 Abhishek V. Joshi , Ben S. Prather , Chi-kwan Chan , Maciek Wielgus , Charles F. Gammie