14 papers
Black Hole Polarimetry III: Universal Polarization of Synchrotron Radiation at the Horizon
Andrew Chael, Alexandru Lupsasca, George N. Wong +2
Polarized images of a black hole encode the direction of electromagnetic energy flow near its event horizon. Measuring polarization from near-horizon emission can determine whether…
Resonances in binary extreme mass ratio inspirals
João S. Santos, Vitor Cardoso, Alexandru Lupsasca +2
Stellar-mass binaries evolving in the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may be common in the universe, either in active galactic nuclei or in other astrophysical environ…
Chaos and fractals of the black hole photon ring
Roman Berens, Peter Galison, Trevor Gravely +2
The photon ring of a Kerr black hole decomposes into a self-similar hierarchy of subrings. Here, we show that this self-similar structure persists in phase space. Moreover, near th…
Single-minus graviton tree amplitudes are nonzero
Alfredo Guevara, Alexandru Lupsasca, David Skinner +2
Single-minus tree-level -graviton scattering amplitudes are revisited. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configuratio…
Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero
Alfredo Guevara, Alexandru Lupsasca, David Skinner +2
Single-minus tree-level -gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configuratio…
Black Hole Vision: An Interactive iOS Application for Visualizing Black Holes
Roman Berens, Dominic O. Chang, Trevor Gravely +1
The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a proposed mission to launch a sub-millimeter radio telescope into Earth orbit that will take the sharpest images in the history of astronomy and…