First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

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First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

Published in IOP Publishing • Jan 1, 2019

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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Kazunori Akiyama

Antxon Alberdi

Abstract

When surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at the event horizon. To image and study this phenomenon, we have assembled the Event Horizon Telescope, a global very long baseline interferome...

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galaxies: individual (M87)

accretion

accretion disks

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