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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…

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

Thanks for the releasing image of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the event horizon telescope (EHT) at the heart of the $M87$ galaxy. After the discovery of this mysterious object, scientists paid attention to exploring the BH shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

Born in rapidly evolving mini-halos during the first billion years of the Universe, super- massive black holes (SMBH) feed from gas flows spanning many orders of magnitude, from the cosmic web in which they are embedded to their event…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-21 Ricarda S. Beckmann , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We study the long-term evolution of the global structure of axisymmetric accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) at rates substantially higher than the Eddington value ($\dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$), performing two-dimensional hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

The EHT collaboration released in 2019 the first horizon-scale images of a black hole accretion flow, opening a novel route for plasma physics comprehension and gravitational tests. Although the present unresolved images deeply depend on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 I. Urso , F. H. Vincent , M. Wielgus , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

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…

The properties of black holes and accretion flows can be inferred by fitting Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data to simulated images generated through general relativistic ray tracing (GRRT). However, due to the computationally intensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Ao liu , Zelin Zhang , Songbai Chen , Cuihong Wen , Jieci Wang

Massive black holes (BHs) inhabiting galactic nuclei can be described by two parameters only, i.e. mass and spin, that change through cosmic time in response to accretion and merger events. While most numerical simulations accurately track…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Elia Cenci , Luca Sala , Alessandro Lupi , Pedro R. Capelo , Massimo Dotti

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

Simulating black hole (BH) accretion and feedback from the horizon to galactic scales is extremely challenging, as it involves a vast range of scales. Recently, our multizone method has successfully achieved global dynamical steady-states…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Kung-Yi Su , Priyamvada Natarajan

We have now entered the new era of high-resolution imaging astronomy with the beginning of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT can resolve the dynamics of matter in the immediate vicinity around black holes at and below the horizon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Paul Tiede , Hung-Yi Pu , Avery E. Broderick , Roman Gold , Mansour Karami , Jorge A. Preciado-López

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 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

We implement a sub-resolution prescription for the unresolved dynamical friction onto black holes (BHs) in the OpenGadget3 code. We carry out cosmological simulations of a volume of 16 cMpc3 and zoom-ins of a galaxy group and of a galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Alice Damiano , Milena Valentini , Stefano Borgani , Luca Tornatore , Giuseppe Murante , Antonio Ragagnin , Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Klaus Dolag

We present a full 360 degree (i.e., 4$\pi$ steradian) general-relativistic ray-tracing and radiative transfer calculations of accreting supermassive black holes. We perform state-of-the-art three-dimensional general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 Jordy Davelaar , Thomas Bronzwaer , Daniel Kok , Ziri Younsi , Monika Mościbrodzka , Heino Falcke

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87* provide a means of constraining parameters of both the black hole and its surrounding plasma. However, intrinsic variability of the emitting material introduces a major source of systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Dominic O. Chang , Micael D. Johnson , Paul Tiede

Horizon-scale observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have enabled precision study of supermassive black hole accretion. Contemporary accretion modeling often treats the inflowing plasma as a single, thermal fluid, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 George N. Wong , Lev Arzamasskiy

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

The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium is on the verge to provide the first telescopic image of massive black holes SgrA* and M87* surrounded by accretion disks, at a resolution scale comparable to the size of their event horizons. Well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Jean-Pierre Luminet