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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) is a millimeter-wavelength, very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment that is capable of observing black holes with horizon-scale resolution. Early observations have revealed variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-20 Junhan Kim , Daniel P. Marrone , Chi-kwan Chan , Lia Medeiros , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

(abridged) In the first two papers of this publication series, we present a comprehensive library of synthetic EHT observations and used this library to train and validate Bayesian neural networks for the parameter inference of accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Janssen , C. -k. Chan , J. Davelaar , M. Wielgus

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of two supermassive black holes, Messier~87* (M 87*) and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr A*). The EHT collaboration used these images to indirectly constrain black hole parameters by calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel C. M Palumbo , Zachary Gelles , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Dominic W. Pesce , Andrew Chael , Michael D. Johnson

Recent advances in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations have expanded and improved our understanding of the dynamics of black-hole accretion disks. However, current simulations do not capture the thermodynamics of electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Chi-Kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) has published the first image of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) obtained via the Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique. In the future, it is expected that additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Christian Fendt , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Christos Vourellis

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…

Accretion of magnetized gas on compact astrophysical objects such as black holes has been successfully modeled using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. These simulations have largely been performed in the Kerr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan , Koushik Chatterjee , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

The advent of high-fidelity imaging of supermassive black holes calls for efficient and robust data-analysis methods. In this work, we use $\texttt{Jipole}$, a differentiable, $\texttt{ipole}$-based radiative transfer code, to enable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Pedro Naethe Motta , Mário Raia Neto , Cora Prather , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

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 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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed the horizon-scale radiation of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, offering a new platform to test gravitational theories. The next step involves studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Kotaro Moriyama , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal

Ongoing millimeter VLBI observations with the Event Horizon Telescope allow unprecedented study of the innermost portion of black hole accretion flows. Interpreting the observations requires relativistic, time-dependent physical modeling.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Dexter , Eric Agol , P. Chris Fragile , Jonathan C. McKinney

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…

In this paper, we introduce a novel data augmentation methodology based on Conditional Progressive Generative Adversarial Networks (CPGAN) to generate diverse black hole (BH) images, accounting for variations in spin and electron…

We review a General Relativistic (GR) method to determine the black hole (BH) parameters: mass-to-distance ratio, position and recessional velocity of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) of Seyfert type, which have an accretion disk with water…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-03 Adriana González-Juárez , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

Black hole images obtained by very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) by the Event Horizon Telescope are a new tool for testing general relativity in super-strong gravitational fields. These images demonstrated a ring-like structure which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 S. V. Chernov , M. A. Shchurov , I. I. Bulygin , A. G. Rudnitskiy

Global, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of nonradiative, magnetized disks are widely used to model accreting black holes. We have performed a convergence study of GRMHD models computed with HARM3D. The models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Hotaka Shiokawa , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Scott C. Noble

The observation of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87$^{*}$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is sensitive to the spacetime geometry near the circular photon orbit and beyond, and it thus has the potential to test general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Guillermo Lara , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse
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