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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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118 papers

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

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.HE2026

Finite-volume scheme for first-order viscoresistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

Ruben Lier, Jay Armas, Oliver Porth

We present a numerical implementation of dissipative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics based on Bemfica-Disconzi-Noronha-Kovtun (BDNK) theory, in which first-order corrections rend…

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

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

Magnetic reconnection with a 0.1 rate: Effective resistivity in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

B. Ripperda, M. P. Grehan, A. Moran +5

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to power various multi-wavelength emission signatures from neutron stars and black holes. Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics…

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★ 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

Fill the gaps: continuous in time interpolation of fluid dynamical simulations

Jonas Pronk, Oliver Porth, Jordy Davelaar

Flexible and accurate interpolation schemes using machine learning could be of great benefit for many use-cases in numerical simulations and post-processing, such as temporal upsam…

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★ 1 cited

On the universality of the split monopole black hole magnetosphere

S. Selvi, O. Porth, B. Ripperda +1

Black holes can acquire magnetic flux from their magnetized progenitor or via prolonged accretion. We study the evolution of black hole magnetospheres by means of axisymmetric gene…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Comparison of magnetic diffusion and reconnection in ideal and resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, ideal magnetodynamics, and resistive force-free electrodynamics

Michael P. Grehan, Tanisha Ghosal, James R. Beattie +3

High-energy astrophysical systems and compact objects are frequently modeled using ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or force-free electrodynamic (FFE) simulations, with…

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★ 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.HE2025★ 2 cited

Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics without Amperes Law

Ruben Lier, Akash Jain, Jay Armas +1

Resistive magnetohydrodynamics is thought to play a key role in transient astrophysical phenomena such as black hole flares and neutron star magnetospheres. When performing numeric…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Demographics of black holes at 100 R scales: accretion flows, jets, and shadows

Dhanya G. Nair, Neil M. Nagar, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan +87

Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been…

astro-ph.HE2024

Probing jet dynamics and collimation in radio galaxies. Application to NGC 1052

Ainara Saiz-Pérez, Christian M. Fromm, Manel Perucho +5

Context. Radio galaxies with visible two-sided jet structures, such as NGC 1052, are sources of particular interest to study the collimation and shock structure of active galactic…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Pulse Profiles of Accreting Neutron Stars from GRMHD Simulations

Pushpita Das, Tuomo Salmi, Jordy Davelaar +2

The pulsed X-ray emission from the neutron star surface acts as a window to study the state of matter in the neutron star interior. For accreting millisecond pulsars, the surface X…

astro-ph.HE2024

Two-temperature treatments in magnetically arrested disk GRMHD simulations more accurately predict light curves of Sagittarius A*

León Salas, Matthew Liska, Sera Markoff +6

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) observed the Galactic centre source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) and used emission models primarily based on single ion temperature (1T)…

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★ 1 cited

Resolution analysis of magnetically arrested disk simulations

León Salas, Gibwa Musoke, Koushik Chatterjee +4

Polarisation measurements by the Event Horizon Telescope from M87 and Sgr A suggest that there is a dynamically strong, ordered magnetic field, typical of what is e…

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★ 12 cited

Current sheet alignment in oblique black hole magnetospheres -- a black hole pulsar?

Sebastiaan Selvi, Oliver Porth, Bart Ripperda +1

We study the magnetospheric evolution of a non-accreting spinning black hole (BH) with an initially inclined split monopole magnetic field by means of three-dimensional general rel…

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…