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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.GA2019115 cited

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068

GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Pfuhl, R. Davies +40

We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Inter…

astro-ph.GA2019

The resolved size and structure of hot dust in the immediate vicinity of AGN

GRAVITY Collaboration, J. Dexter, J. Shangguan +42

We use VLTI/GRAVITY near-infrared interferometry measurements of 8 bright, Type 1 AGN to study the size and structure of hot dust heated by the central engine. We partially resolve…

astro-ph.GA2019

Scalar field effects on the orbit of S2 star

António Amorim, Michael Bauböck, Myriam Benisty +35

Precise measurements of the S-stars orbiting SgrA* have set strong constraints on the nature of the compact object at the centre of the Milky Way. The presence of a black hole in t…

astro-ph.GA2019

A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic Center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty

R. Abuter, A. Amorim, M. Bauboeck +51

We present a 0.16% precise and 0.27% accurate determination of R0, the distance to the Galactic Center. Our measurement uses the star S2 on its 16-year orbit around the massive bla…

astro-ph.GA201947 cited

Test of Einstein equivalence principle near the Galactic center supermassive black hole

A. Amorim, M. Bauböck, J. P. Berger +49

During its orbit around the four million solar mass black hole Sagittarius A* the star S2 experiences significant changes in gravitational potential. We use this change of potentia…

astro-ph.GA201944 cited

Spectroscopic Detection of a Cusp of Late-type Stars around the Central Black Hole in the Milky Way

M. Habibi, S. Gillessen, O. Pfuhl +12

In a dynamically relaxed cluster around a massive black hole a dense stellar cusp of old stars is expected to form. Previous observations showed a relative paucity of red giant sta…