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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.IM2026

The SHARPEx space-to-space VLBI experiment

Freek Roelofs, Christiaan Brinkerink, Albert Catalan Artigas +16

Space is the next frontier for ultra-high resolution imaging of astrophysical sources with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). The limited size of the Earth and atmospheric a…

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.IM2026

Shaping the future of Global Interferometric Arrays: Imaging Strong Gravity and Magnetic Fields

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Violette Impellizzeri, Chi-Kwan Chan +7

The observational validation of General Relativity (GR) has been propelled in recent years by recent breakthroughs in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) augmented by ALMA. We…

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

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★ 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.IM2025★ 1 cited

Enhanced imaging of M87*: Simulations with the EHT and extended-KVN

Ilje Cho, Jongho Park, Do-Young Byun +16

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has successfully revealed the shadow of the supermassive black hole, M87*, with an unprecedented angular resolution of approximately 20 uas at 230…

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.IM2024★ 76 cited

The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

Michael D. Johnson, Kazunori Akiyama, Rebecca Baturin +65

We present the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a mission that will produce the sharpest images in the history of astronomy by extending submillimeter Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry…

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.IM2024★ 2 cited

Atmospheric limitations for high-frequency ground-based VLBI

Dominic W. Pesce, Lindy Blackburn, Ryan Chaves +10

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) provides the highest-resolution images in astronomy. The sharpest resolution is nominally achieved at the highest frequencies, but as the o…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Imaging the event horizon of M87* from space on different timescales

Anastasia Shlentsova, Freek Roelofs, Sara Issaoun +2

The concept of a new space very long baseline interferometry system named the Event Horizon Imager (EHI) has been proposed to dramatically improve black hole imaging and provide pr…

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…