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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.HE2026

mm-jets in the multi-messenger era

Karri I. I. Koljonen, Thomas D. Russell, Britton Jeter +16

Jets and outflows operate across the full cosmic mass scale from young stellar objects (YSOs) and X-ray binaries (XRBs) to active galactic nuclei (AGN), gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), an…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Real-Time Jet Laboratory in Swift J1727.8-1613

Callan M. Wood, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian +16

We present the results of our intensive VLBI campaign on the black-hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Swift J1727.8-1613 during its 2023-2024 outburst. We observed the repeated quen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope

Hendrik Mueller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Ai-Ling Zeng +275

The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact…

astro-ph.HE2026

A cooler look at the environment of Cygnus X-1: Searching for dynamical interactions within cold molecular gas

Pau Bosch-Cabot, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Valentí Bosch-Ramon +7

We present IRAM--30m observations aimed at identifying potential outflow-interstellar medium interaction sites in the vicinity of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X--1, which dis…

astro-ph.HE2026

Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign

G. Principe, J. C. Algaba, E. Aviano +529

The archetypal blazar 3C 279 hosts a prominent relativistic jet and exhibits strong broadband variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. In April 2017, the Event Horizon Tele…

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.HE2026★ 1 cited

Optical outburst evolution of the transient black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613: Disc response to jet ejections and late-outburst emergence of powerful disc winds

N. Castro Segura, K. Solomons, J. M. Corral-Santana +22

Swift J1727.81613 is a newly discovered transient low-mass X-ray binary harbouring a stellar-mass () black hole. We present state-resolved VLT/X-Shooter optical…

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.HE2026★ 1 cited

Ring Asymmetry and Spin in M87*

Vadim Bernshteyn, Nicholas S. Conroy, Michi Bauböck +263

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black hole M87* depict an asymmetric ring of emission. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) models of M87* and…

astro-ph.HE2025

A jet bent by a stellar wind in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1

Steve Prabu, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian +7

Jets provide an important channel for kinetic feedback from accreting black holes into their environment, without which models of the formation of large-scale structure in the univ…

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.HE2025

Constraining the Jet Energetics of the Transient X-ray Binaries MAXI J1348-630 and MAXI J1820+070 through Calorimetry

Pau Bosch-Cabot, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Erik Rosolowsky +6

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations aimed at identifying potential jet-ISM interaction sites in the vicinity of the transient black hole X-r…

astro-ph.HE2025

Covariance spectrum of MAXI J1820+070: On the nature of the Comptonizing flow

Shuai-Kang Yang, Bei You, Niek Bollemeijer +8

We present an analysis of the covariance spectrum of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during its hard state. For the first time, we extend coherence and covariance studie…

astro-ph.HE2025

First X-ray and radio polarimetry of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 17+2

Unnati Kashyap, Thomas J. Maccarone, Eliot C. Pattie +5

We report the first polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 17+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Very Lar…

astro-ph.HE2025

Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries

P. Gandhi, D. M. Russell, M. C. Baglio +33

Progress in understanding the growth of accreting black holes remains hampered by a lack of sensitive coordinated multiwavelength observations. In particular, the mid-infrared (MIR…

astro-ph.HE2025

Radio Continuum Studies of Ultra-Compact and Short Orbital Period X-Ray Binaries

Kristen C. Dage, Teresa Panurach, Kwangmin Oh +14

We present the radio continuum counterparts to the enigmatic ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs); a black hole or neutron star accreting from a hydrogen-deficient white dwarf dono…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.81613 during its 20232024 Outburst

Andrew K. Hughes, Francesco Carotenuto, Thomas D. Russell +39

This work presents comprehensive multi-frequency radio monitoring of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1727.81613, which underwent its first recorded outburst after it…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Mid-infrared Emitting Jet in the Black Hole V404 Cygni in Quiescence

E. S. Borowski, R. I. Hynes, Q. Hunt +13

Observations of some quiescent black hole X-ray binaries have revealed an excess of mid-infrared (MIR) emission above that expected from their donor stars. In one system, V404 Cygn…

astro-ph.HE2025

The peculiar hard state behaviour of the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.81613

A. K. Hughes, F. Carotenuto, T. D. Russell +37

Tracking the correlation between radio and X-ray luminosities during black hole X-ray binary outbursts is a key diagnostic of the coupling between accretion inflows (traced by X-ra…

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.HE2025

The Ejection of Transient Jets in Swift J1727.8-1613 Revealed by Time-Dependent Visibility Modelling

Callan M. Wood, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian +14

High angular resolution radio observations of relativistic jets are necessary to understand the causal connection between accretion and jet ejection in low mass X-ray binaries. Ima…

astro-ph.HE2025

Sub-second optical/near-infrared quasi-periodic oscillations from the black hole X-ray transient Swift J1727.8-1613

F. M. Vincentelli, T. Shahbaz, P. Casella +14

We report on the detection of optical/near-infrared (O-IR) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the black hole X-ray transient Swift J1727.8-1613. We obtained three X-ray and O-…

astro-ph.HE2025

Rapid far-infrared spectral timing of X-ray binaries with PRIMA

Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Poshak Gandhi, Devraj Pawar

The most powerful cosmic engines in our universe are fueled by compact objects. These objects accrete large amounts of material and eject matter in the form of jets. Recent groundb…

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…