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The spectacular images of the M87 black hole taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have opened a new era of black hole research. One of the next issues is to take polarization images around the central black hole (BH). Since radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Yuh Tsunetoe , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Kazunori Akiyama

Black holes represent extreme conditions of physical laws. Being predicted about a century ago, they are now accepted as astrophysical reality by most of the scientific community. Only recently more direct evidence of their existence has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Christian Fendt

Classical black holes are solutions of the field equations of General Relativity. Many astronomical observations suggest that black holes really exist in nature. However, an unambiguous proof for their existence is still lacking. Neither…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Andreas Mueller

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

In this paper, we explore the effect of non-linear electrodynamics (NLED) parameters and magnetic charges on various aspects of black holes, like how they bend light, how they emit radiation, and how they appear as a shadow by considering a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

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

In anticipation of future multi-frequency observations of black hole with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT), we construct spectral images of a thin accretion disk around a spherically symmetric black hole immersed in cold,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Kobialko , Dmitri Gal'tsov , Alexey Molchanov

Within quantum-gravity approaches and beyond, different mechanisms for singularity resolution in black holes exist. Under a set of assumptions that we spell out in detail, these mechanisms leave their imprint in shadow images of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held , Philipp-Vincent Johannsen

Direct imaging of black hole shadow halos has firmly confirmed the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with millions of solar masses, residing at the centers of the Milky Way and M87 galaxies. These groundbreaking discoveries…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ke-Jung Chen

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has successfully revealed the shadow of the supermassive black hole, M87*, with an unprecedented angular resolution of approximately 20 uas at 230 GHz. However, because of limited short baseline lengths,…

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

The impressive images from the Event Horizon Telescope sharpen the conflict between our observations of gravitational phenomena and the principles of quantum mechanics. Two related scenarios for reconciling quantum mechanics with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Steven B. Giddings

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

Higher-dimensional scenarios allow for the formation of mini-black holes from TeV-scale particle collisions. The purpose of this paper is to review and compare different methods for the estimate of the total gravitational energy emitted in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-31 Vitor Cardoso , Emanuele Berti , Marco Cavaglia

The images of supermassive black holes in M87 and our galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) might open up a new way for exploring black hole physics at the horizon scale. Theoretically, this could provide insights into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Qing-Hua Zhu

The horizon-scale images of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) have provided new opportunities to test general relativity and other theories of gravity. In view of future projects, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Akhil Uniyal , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

This study explores spherically symmetric non-linear electrodynamics black holes and their effects on light propagation. We derive the governing metric, revealing radial coordinate dynamics within the event horizon. We analyze photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Mohsen Fathi , Ali Övgün

Over the past decades, there has been significant progress in our understanding of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that drive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), both from observational and theoretical perspectives. As an iconic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Kazuhiro Hada , Keiichi Asada , Masanori Nakamura , Motoki Kino

The very latest observation of $M87$ supermassive black hole (BH) by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides the accretion onto BHs is an interesting study in the theory of gravity. We study the geodesics structure and accretion near a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 A. Ditta , G. Mustafa , G. Abbas , Farruh Atamurotov , Kimet Jusufi

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has directly resolved and imaged two supermassive black holes and opening a new window on black hole physics. However, the current array is limited to only these two brightest nearby targets. This white…