Imaging supermassive black hole shadows with a global very long baseline interferometry array

doi:10.1007/s11467-022-1191-0

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2022, Vol. 17

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Imaging supermassive black hole shadows with a global very long baseline interferometry array

Lijing Shao^1,²(

)

¹. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
². National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China

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Abstract

The imaging of two supermassive black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration proved to a new level the correctness of Einstein's general relativity, regarding its prediction of black hole shadows in the highly curved spacetime regime.

Keywords Event Horizon Telescope very long baseline interferometry black hole black hole shadow

Corresponding Author(s): Lijing Shao

Issue Date: 28 July 2022

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Lijing Shao. Imaging supermassive black hole shadows with a global very long baseline interferometry array[J]. Front. Phys. , 2022, 17(4): 44601.

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Fig.1 Representative black hole shadow images shown in units of brightness temperature for

M 87 ⋆

(upper) [7] and Sgr

A ⋆

(lower) [8], produced from observations in the April 2017 campaign by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. Reproduced by permission of the AAS.

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