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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Makoto Miyoshi , Yoshiaki Kato , Junichiro Makino

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) observations of Sgr\,A* resolved the shadow image and emission ring-like structure, which is associated to the photon ring of the supermassive black hole, at the galactic centre, revealing a diameter of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-14 Milton Jair Santibañez-Armenta , Gustavo Magallanes-Guijón , Sergio Mendoza , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observation unveiled the first image of supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing a shadow of diameter $\theta_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as with fractional deviation from the Schwarzschild black hole shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

We report our independent image reconstruction of the M 87 from the public data of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaborators (EHTC). Our result is different from the image published by the EHTC. Our analysis shows that (a) the structure at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Makoto Miyoshi , Yoshiaki Kato , Junichiro Makino

We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr A* has been conducted through surveys over a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) achieved the realization of an image of the supermassive black hole $\textrm{Sgr~A}^\star$ showing an angular shadow diameter $\mathcal{D}= 48.7 \pm 7\mu as$ and the fractional deviation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-23 L. Chakhchi , H. El Moumni , K. Masmar

The imaging by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive central objects at the heart of the M87 and Milky Way (Sgr A$^\star$) galaxies, has marked the first step into peering at the photon rings and central brightness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Luís F. Dias da Silva , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Upcoming Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations will provide a unique opportunity to reveal the innermost region of the radiative inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) around the Galactic black hole, Sgr A*. Depending on the flow dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-06 Hung-Yi Pu , Avery E. Broderick

In recent years, the evidence for the existence of an ultra-compact concentration of dark mass associated with the radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Center has become very strong. However, an unambiguous proof that this object is indeed a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia , Eric Agol

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A$^*$), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observations were conducted in 2017 using a global interferometric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released an image of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing an angular shadow diameter $d_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as and Schwarzschild shadow deviation $\delta =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Sushant G. Ghosh , Misba Afrin

In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. We find that the Sgr A* data exhibit variability that exceeds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

When surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at the event horizon. To image and study this phenomenon, we have assembled the…

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

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of M87, using observations from April 2017 at 1.3 mm wavelength. These images show a prominent ring with a diameter of ~40 micro-as, consistent with the size and shape of the lensed…

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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration's image of the compact object at the galactic center is the first direct evidence of the supermassive black hole (BH) Sgr A$^*$. The shadow of Sgr A$^*$ has an angular diameter $d_{sh}= 48.7…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-24 Misba Afrin , Sunny Vagnozzi , Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global 230 GHz VLBI array, achieves an angular resolution of ${\approx} 20\,\mu{\rm as}$, sufficient to resolve the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). This resolution may soon enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Ziyan Zhu , Michael D. Johnson , Ramesh Narayan

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.…

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 black hole in the center of the Galaxy, associated with the compact source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is predicted to cast a shadow upon the emission of the surrounding plasma flow, which encodes the influence of general relativity in the…

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