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. 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 …

Astronomical radio interferometry

Y Asaki, B Alcalde Pampliega, PG Edwards… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Radio interferometry and its application to arrays of element antennas enable sensitive
studies of celestial objects with angular resolutions comparable with, or surpassing, optical …

Superradiant evolution of the shadow and photon ring of Sgr

Y Chen, R Roy, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Ultralight bosons can affect the dynamics of spinning black holes (BHs) via superradiant
instability, which can lead to a time evolution of the supermassive BH shadow. We study …

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 …

Observing the inner shadow of a black hole: a direct view of the event horizon

A Chael, MD Johnson, A Lupsasca - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulated images of a black hole surrounded by optically thin emission typically display two
main features: a central brightness depression and a narrow" photon ring" consisting of …

Modeling the Sgr A* black hole immersed in a dark matter spike

S Nampalliwar, S Kumar, K Jusufi, Q Wu… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we investigate the effects of a dark matter (DM) spike on the neighborhood of
Sgr A*, the black hole (BH) in the center of the Milky Way. Our main goal is to investigate …

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 …

Reference Array and Design Consideration for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

SS Doeleman, J Barrett, L Blackburn, KL Bouman… - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
We describe the process to design, architect, and implement a transformative enhancement
of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This program—the next-generation Event Horizon …

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 …