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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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71 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Observational Evidence of an Internal Shock Collision in the Relativistic Jet of the Nearby Radio Galaxy 3C 111

Kenzo Kawamura, Motoki Kino, Mareki Honma +21

We report 10 epochs of 22 GHz East Asia To Italy: Nearly Global VLBI (EATING VLBI) observations of the nearby radio galaxy 3C~111 obtained from 2020 to 2023. Combined with VLBA dat…

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.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★ 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★ 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.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★ 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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 370 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Variability, Morphology, and Black Hole Mass

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. W…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 109 cited

Precessing jet nozzle connecting to a spinning black hole in M87

Yuzhu Cui, Kazuhiro Hada, Tomohisa Kawashima +76

The nearby radio galaxy M87 offers a unique opportunity to explore the connections between the central supermassive black hole and relativistic jets. Previous studies of the inner…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

A ring-like accretion structure in M87 connecting its black hole and jet

Ru-Sen Lu, Keiichi Asada, Thomas P. Krichbaum +118

The nearby radio galaxy M87 is a prime target for studying black hole accretion and jet formation^{1,2}. Event Horizon Telescope observations of M87 in 2017, at a wavelength of 1.3…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Transverse Oscillations of the M87 Jet Revealed by KaVA Observations

Hyunwook Ro, Kunwoo Yi, Yuzhu Cui +6

Recent VLBI monitoring has found transverse motions of the M87 jet. However, due to the limited cadence of previous observations, details of the transverse motion have not been ful…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Super-Resolved Image of M87 Observed with East Asian VLBI Network

Fumie Tazaki, Yuzhu Cui, Kazuhiro Hada +11

Obtaining high-resolution images at centimeter-or-longer wavelengths is vital for understanding the physics of jets. We reconstructed images from the M87 22 GHz data observed with…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Spectral analysis of a parsec-scale jet in M87: Observational constraint on the magnetic field strengths in the jet

Hyunwook Ro, Motoki Kino, Bong Won Sohn +49

Because of its proximity and the large size of its black hole, M87 is one of the best targets for studying the launching mechanism of active galactic nucleus jets. Currently, magne…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 24 cited

Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes used by the EHT Collaboration

Cora Prather, Jason Dexter, Monika Moscibrodzka +270

Interpretation of resolved polarized images of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) requires predictions of the polarized emission observable by an Earth-based instrume…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 28 cited

The Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Quasar NRAO 530

Svetlana Jorstad, Maciek Wielgus, Rocco Lico +27

We report on the observations of the quasar NRAO 530 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on 2017 April 5-7, when NRAO 530 was used as a calibrator for the EHT observations of Sa…