[PDF][PDF] Fundamental physics opportunities with the next-generation event horizon telescope

D Ayzenberg, L Blackburn, R Brito… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration recently published the first
images of the supermassive black holes in the cores of the Messier 87 and Milky Way …

Prospects for future binary black hole gravitational wave studies in light of PTA measurements

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Hütsi, M Raidal, J Urrutia… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
NANOGrav and other Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have discovered a common-spectrum
process in the nHz range that may be due to gravitational waves (GWs): if so, they are likely …

Rapid quasi-periodic oscillations in the relativistic jet of BL Lacertae

SG Jorstad, AP Marscher, CM Raiteri, M Villata… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets whose non-thermal radiation is
extremely variable on various timescales,–. This variability seems mostly random, although …

Nanohertz gravitational wave astronomy during SKA era: An InPTA perspective

BC Joshi, A Gopakumar, A Pandian, T Prabu… - Journal of Astrophysics …, 2022 - Springer
Decades long monitoring of millisecond pulsars, which exhibit highly stable rotational
periods in pulsar timing array experiments is on the threshold of discovering nanohertz …

Appreciating mergers for understanding the non-linear MbhM*,spheroid and MbhM*, galaxy relations, updated herein, and the implications for the (reduced …

AW Graham, N Sahu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present revised (black hole mass)–(spheroid stellar mass) and (black hole mass)–
(galaxy stellar mass) scaling relations based on colour-dependent (stellar mass)-to-light …

Electromagnetic signatures from supermassive binary black holes approaching merger

EM Gutiérrez, L Combi, SC Noble… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present fully relativistic predictions for the electromagnetic emission produced by
accretion disks surrounding spinning and nonspinning supermassive binary black holes on …

Refining the OJ 287 2022 impact flare arrival epoch

MJ Valtonen, S Zola, A Gopakumar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The bright blazar OJ 287 routinely parades high brightness bremsstrahlung flares, which are
explained as being a result of a secondary supermassive black hole (SMBH) impacting the …

Searching for quasar candidates with periodic variations from the Zwicky Transient Facility: results and implications

YJ Chen, S Zhai, JR Liu, WJ Guo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We conduct a systematic search for quasars with periodic variations from the archival
photometric data of the Zwicky Transient Facility by cross-matching with the quasar …

The Enhanced Population of Extreme Mass-ratio Inspirals in the LISA Band from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

S Naoz, Z Haiman - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) take place when a stellar-mass black hole (BH)
merges with a supermassive BH (SMBH). The gravitational-wave emission from such an …

The demographics of obscured AGN from X-ray spectroscopy guided by multiwavelength information

B Laloux, A Georgakakis, C Andonie… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A complete census of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a prerequisite for
understanding the growth of supermassive black holes across cosmic time. A significant …