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most citedFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

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astro-ph.HE2025★ 20 cited

Horizon-scale variability of M87* from 2017--2021 EHT observations

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We report three epochs of polarized images of M87* at 230\,GHz using data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) taken in 2017, 2018, and 2021. The baseline coverage of the 2021 ob…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 33 cited

Selective Dynamical Imaging of Interferometric Data

Joseph Farah, Peter Galison, Kazunori Akiyama +16

Recent developments in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have made it possible for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to resolve the innermost accretion flows of the largest…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multi-wavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) 1.3 mm measurements of the radio source located at the position of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), collected during th…

gr-qc2020★ 347 cited

Gravitational Test Beyond the First Post-Newtonian Order with the Shadow of the M87 Black Hole

Dimitrios Psaltis, Lia Medeiros, Pierre Christian +185

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the central source in M87 have led to the first measurement of the size of a black-hole shadow. This observation offers a new…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 67 cited

Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009-2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope

Maciek Wielgus, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn +26

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 4.3k cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

When surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at the event horizon. To…