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Using very long baseline interferometry, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has resolved the shadows of two supermassive black holes. Model comparison is traditionally performed in image space, where imaging algorithms…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87* as an asymmetric bright emission ring with a diameter of $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

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), a global sub-millimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, is now resolving the innermost regions around the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87. Using black hole images from both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Angelo Ricarte , Jason Dexter

In general relativity, isolated black holes are invisible due to an infinitely large redshift of photons propagating from the event horizon to the remote observer. However, the dark shadow (silhouette) of a black hole can be visible on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Natalia O. Nazarova

The need for a consistent quantum evolution for black holes has led to proposals that their semiclassical description is modified not just near the singularity, but at horizon or larger scales. If such modifications extend beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Steven B. Giddings , Dimitrios Psaltis

We present estimates for the number of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) for which the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) can identify the black hole ``shadow,'' along with estimates for how many black hole masses and spins the…

Horizon-scale imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided transformative insights into supermassive black holes but its resolution and scope are limited by ground-based constraints such as the size of the Earth, its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Yassine Ben Zineb , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) has presented first - dynamic-range limited - images of the black hole shadows in M87 and Sgr A*. The next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) will provide higher sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-14 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Christian Fendt , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Javier Lagunas , Javier Pedreros , Neil M. Nagar , Felipe Agurto

If a lot of dark matter particles accumulate near the black hole, then the chances of detecting dark matter signals near a black hole are greatly increased. These effects may be observed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Tianqin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhaoyi Xu , Jiancheng Wang

The EHT has captured a series of images of black holes. These images could provide valuable information about the gravitational environment near the event horizon. However, accurate detection and parameter estimation for candidate black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Yeqi Fang , Wei Hong , Jun Tao

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

The images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration mark a special milestone in the history of the subject. For the first time we are able to see the shadow of black holes, testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Heino Falcke

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has recently published the first horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* and provided some first information on the physical conditions in their vicinity. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Kotaro Moriyama , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Luciano Rezzolla

In view of the upcoming observations with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), we present our thoughts on the immediate environment of an astrophysical black hole. We are concerned that two approximations used in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Ioannis Contopoulos

This work investigates the optical properties of a static, spherically symmetric, electrically charged black hole in f(R) gravity coupled to Euler-Heisenberg(EH) nonlinear electrodynamics(NLED). By analyzing photon trajectories in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Khadije Jafarzade , Saira Yasmin , Mubasher Jamil

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that comprises millimeter- and submillimeter-wavelength telescopes separated by distances comparable to the diameter of the Earth. At a nominal operating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-08 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global very long baseline interferometry array operating at millimetre wavelengths, is spatially resolving the immediate environments of black holes for the first time. The current observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Ayman Bin Kamruddin , Jason Dexter