Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image
Abstract
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has recently released the first image of a black hole (BH), opening a new window onto tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. In this paper, we derive constraints on the nature of M87* (the supermassive object at the center of the galaxy M87), exploiting the fact that its shadow appears to be highly circular, and using measurements of its angular size.
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Physical Review D 100 (4), 044057 (2019)
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Luca Visinelli
Tenure-track Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Fellow, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
PhD in Physics, working on Particle Astrophysics and Dark Matter modeling.