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

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.

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Keywords

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

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