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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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58 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Optimal transport regularized dynamic radio interferometric reconstruction

Andy Nilipour, Kotaro Moriyama, Shiro Ikeda +2

We propose a new technique for dynamic video reconstruction of radio interferometric data using the optimal transport (OT) distance as a regularizer within the regularized maximum…

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.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

Expanding the Horizon of Black Hole Imaging with AtLAST

Kazunori Akiyama, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Ziri Younsi +8

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has directly resolved and imaged two supermassive black holes and opening a new window on black hole physics. However, the current array is limite…

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★ 7 cited

Revealing a ribbon-like jet in OJ 287 with RadioAstron

E. Traianou, J. L. Gomez, I. Cho +17

We present space-based very long baseline interferometry observations of the BL Lac type object OJ 287 taken with RadioAstron at 22 GHz on April 25, 2016, in conjunction with a gro…

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★ 1 cited

Black hole accretion and radiation variability in GRMHD simulations with Rezzolla-Zhidenko spacetime

Kotaro Moriyama, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yosuke Mizuno +2

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed the horizon-scale radiation of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, offering a new platform to test…

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.HE2024★ 2 cited

Helical magnetic field structure in 3C 273. A Faraday rotation analysis using multi-frequency polarimetric VLBA data

Teresa Toscano, Sol N. Molina, José L. Gómez +12

We present a study on rotation measure (RM) of the quasar 3C 273. This analysis aims to discern the magnetic field structure and its temporal evolution. The quasar 3C 273 is one of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

The impact of resistivity on the variability of black hole accretion flows

Antonios Nathanail, Yosuke Mizuno, Ioannis Contopoulos +4

Context. The accretion of magnetized plasma onto black holes is a complex and dynamic process, where the magnetic field plays a crucial role. The amount of magnetic flux accumulate…

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

Black Hole Spacetime and Properties of Accretion Flows and Jets Probed by Black Hole Explorer: Science Cases Proposed by BHEX Japan Team

Tomohisa Kawashima, Yuh Tsunetoe, Ken Ohsuga +7

Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space VLBI mission concept, which can probe the black hole spacetime and the plasma properties including the magnetic fields of the accretion flows…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The Japanese Vision for the Black Hole Explorer Mission

Kazunori Akiyama, Kotaro Niinuma, Kazuhiro Hada +43

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a next-generation space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that will extend the ground-based millimeter/submillimeter arrays…

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.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

Future Prospects for Constraining Black-Hole Spacetime: Horizon-scale Variability of Astrophysical Jet

Kotaro Moriyama, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Yosuke Mizuno +3

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has recently published the first horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* and provided some first inform…

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…