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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.GA2026

Variability of Sagittarius A* at 3 GHz on minute-scale with MeerKAT

K. Kaur, I. Rammala-Zitha, A. Basu +21

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) exhibits temporal and spectral variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. However, variability at radio frequencies below…

astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.IM2026

Probabilistic Interpolation of Sagittarius A*'s Multi-Wavelength Light Curves Using Diffusion Models

Gabriel Sasseville, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Daryl Haggard +3

Understanding the variability of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) requires coordinated, multi-wavelength observations that span the electromagnetic spectrum. In this work, we focus on data…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines

Boris Georgiev, Paul Tiede, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +280

In Very-Long Baseline Interferometric arrays, nearly co-located stations probe the largest scales and typically cannot resolve the observed source. In the absence of large-scale st…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations

Saurabh, Hendrik Müller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +282

We investigate the presence and spatial characteristics of the jet base emission in M87* at 230 GHz, enabled by the enhanced uv coverage in the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Photometric Constraints on Intermediate-mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre

Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Joseph M. Michail +14

JWST/MIRI observations can place photometric limits on the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) near the Galactic Centre. The stellar complex IRS 13E, a co-moving con…

astro-ph.HE2025

First Mid-infrared Detection and Modeling of a Flare from Sgr A*. II. Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution and Millimeter Polarimetry

Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Garrett K. Keating +20

S. D. von Fellenberg et al. (2025a, Paper I) reported the first mid-infrared detection of a flare from Sgr A*. The JWST/MIRI/MRS observations were consistent with an orbiting hotsp…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87*

Rohan Dahale, Ilje Cho, Kotaro Moriyama +273

We investigate the origin of the elliptical ring structure observed in the images of the supermassive black hole M87*, aiming to disentangle contributions from gravitational, astro…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

First polarization study of the M87 jet and active galactic nuclei at submillimeter wavelengths with ALMA

Ciriaco Goddi, Douglas F. Carlos

We present full-polarization observations at mm (345 GHz) conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward Messier 87 (M87) and seven other r…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

The putative center in NGC 1052

Anne-Kathrin Baczko, Matthias Kadler, Eduardo Ros +284

Many active galaxies harbor powerful relativistic jets, however, the detailed mechanisms of their formation and acceleration remain poorly understood. To investigate the area of je…

astro-ph.HE2025

First mid-infrared detection and modeling of a flare from Sgr A*

Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Joseph M. Michail +24

The time-variable emission from the accretion flow of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, has long been examined in the radio-to-mm, near-infrared (NIR), an…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 13 cited

A multi-frequency study of sub-parsec jets with the Event Horizon Telescope

Jan Röder, Maciek Wielgus, Andrei P. Lobanov +287

The 2017 observing campaign of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) delivered the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) images at the observing frequency of 230 GHz, leading…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Sun-related variability in the light curves of compact radio sources. A new view on Extreme Scattering Events

Nicola Marchili, Gunther Witzel, Margo F. Aller

An in-depth analysis of variability has been carried out on the 2 GHz and 8 GHz light curves from the impressive database of the US Navy's extragalactic source monitoring program a…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

New Evidence for a Flux-independent Spectral Index of Sgr A* in the Near-infrared

Hadrien Paugnat, Tuan Do, Abhimat K. Gautam +11

In this work, we measure the spectral index of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) between the (1.6 m) and (2.2 m) broadband filters in the near-infrared (NIR), sampling o…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 30 cited

First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Detections at 870μm

Alexander W. Raymond, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Keiichi Asada +276

The first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 870m wavelength (345GHz frequency) are reported, achieving the highest diffraction-limited angular resolutio…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

General Relativistic effects and the NIR variability of Sgr A* II: A systematic approach to temporal asymmetry

Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Gunther Witzel, Michi Bauboeck +20

A systematic study, based on the third-moment structure function, of Sgr A*'s variability finds an exponential rise time and de…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 34 cited

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT Campaign including a Very High Energy Flaring Episode

J. C. Algaba, M. Balokovic, S. Chandra +738

The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of the only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 26 cited

Ordered magnetic fields around the 3C 84 central black hole

G. F. Paraschos, J. -Y. Kim, M. Wielgus +279

3C84 is a nearby radio source with a complex total intensity structure, showing linear polarisation and spectral patterns. A detailed investigation of the central engine region nec…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 93 cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IX. Detection of Near-horizon Circular Polarization

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations have revealed a bright ring of emission around the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. EHT images in linear polariza…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Polarimetric Geometric Modeling for mm-VLBI Observations of Black Holes

Freek Roelofs, Michael D. Johnson, Andrew Chael +4

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that has imaged the apparent shadows of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagit…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 681 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 450 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III: Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 548 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper, we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)'s 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.9k cited

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

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observati…