First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. V. Testing astrophysical models of the galactic center black hole

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescopeʼs
(EHT) 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at …

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

The Galactic Center as a laboratory for theories of gravity and dark matter

M De Laurentis, I De Martino… - Reports on Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Galactic Center (GC) of the Milky Way, thanks to its proximity, allows to perform
astronomical observations that investigate physical phenomena at the edge of astrophysics …

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole

V Ramakrishnan, T Savolainen… - Astrophysical Journal …, 2022 - research.aalto.fi
In this paper we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescope's
(EHT) 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at …

First sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric

V Ramakrishnan, T Savolainen… - Astrophysical Journal …, 2022 - research.aalto.fi
Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only
stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies …

A universal power-law prescription for variability from synthetic images of black hole accretion flows

B Georgiev, DW Pesce, AE Broderick… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has opened a new window on supermassive black
holes. With the advent of millimeter and submillimeter very long baseline interferometry …

Measuring photon rings with the ngEHT

P Tiede, MD Johnson, DW Pesce, DCM Palumbo… - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
General relativity predicts that images of optically thin accretion flows around black holes
should generically have a “photon ring”, composed of a series of increasingly sharp …

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Physical Interpretation of the Polarized Ring

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In a companion paper, we present the first spatially resolved polarized image of Sagittarius
A* on event horizon scales, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, a global very long …

Multifrequency Black Hole Imaging for the Next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

A Chael, S Issaoun, DW Pesce… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of the plasma flow
around the supermassive black holes in Sgr A* and M87* with a resolution comparable to …