Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data
arXiv:2312.05857 · doi:10.1134/S106377962470103X
Abstract
The theory of General Relativity has successfully passed a large number of observational tests without requiring any adjustment from its original version proposed by Einstein in 1915. The past 8 years have seen significant advancements in the study of the strong-field regime, which can now be tested with gravitational waves, X-ray data, and black hole imaging. This is a compact and pedagogical review on the state-of-the-art of the tests of General Relativity with black hole X-ray data.
10 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the "XXXV International Workshop on High Energy Physics - From Quarks to Galaxies: Elucidating Dark Sides" (Protvino, Russia, 28 November - 1 December 2023)
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