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(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 recently captured images of the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy, which show a ring-like emission structure with the South side only slightly brighter than the North side. This relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Lia Medeiros , Chi-Kwan Chan , Ramesh Narayan , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

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) Collaboration observed ring images called the shadows of M87* and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), which are supermassive objects in M87 and our galaxy, respectively, and their general relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Naoki Tsukamoto , Ryotaro Kase

Interferometers, such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), do not directly observe the images of sources but rather measure their Fourier components at discrete spatial frequencies up to a maximum value set by the longest baseline in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Tod R. Lauer , Chi-Kwan Chan , Feryal Ozel

The concept of a new space very long baseline interferometry system named the Event Horizon Imager (EHI) has been proposed to dramatically improve black hole imaging and provide precise tests of the theory of general relativity. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Anastasia Shlentsova , Freek Roelofs , Sara Issaoun , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

The near-horizon region of a black hole impacts linear (LP) and circular polarization (CP) through strong lensing of photons, adding large-scale symmetries and anti-symmetries to the polarized image. To probe the signature of lensing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Aditya Tamar , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

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

In April 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope observed the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the core of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87. While the original image was constructed from measurements of the total intensity, full…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , George N. Wong , Ben S. Prather

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz are combined with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 86 GHz and high resolution Hubble Space Telescope optical observations in order to constrain the broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Brian Punsly

Context. Recent GMVA observations of M 87 at event horizon scales revealed a ring-like structure which is 50% larger at 86 GHz than the ring observed by the Event Horizon Telescope at 230 GHz. Aims. In this paper, we study a possible origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ainara Saiz-Pérez , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Matthias Kadler , Karl Mannheim , Ziri Younsi

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87* detected a ring-shaped feature $\sim40\mu$as in diameter, consistent with the event horizon scale of a black hole of the expected mass. The thickness of this ring, however, proved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Will Lockhart , Samuel E. Gralla

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

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

We demonstrate the unprecedented capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to image the innermost dark matter profile in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 radio galaxy. We present the first model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas Lacroix , Mansour Karami , Avery E. Broderick , Joseph Silk , Celine Boehm

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 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), now with its first ever image of the photon ring around the supermassive black hole of M87, provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Long Baseline…