scholarly journals Tracing a Black Hole: Probing Cosmic Darkness in Anthropocenic Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Jessie Beier
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Galaxy Cluster ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Apparent Horizons ◽  
Cluster A

AbstractIn April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project released an unprecedented image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87. The image, which shows a dark disc outlined by swirling hot gas circling the black hole’s event horizon, exhibits a 55 million-year-old cosmic event in the Virgo galaxy cluster—a void of stellar mass measuring some 6.5 billion times that of our sun. Situated within today’s (Good) Anthropocene scenario, characterized as it is by both the rise of an inhospitable planet but also a range of good vibes and affirmative mantras, this tracing explores this newly “discovered” black hole in terms of the unthinkable questions and speculative trajectories it raises for education and its futures. Through a series of forays into astrophysics, historical examples of cosmic imaging, and further exploration of the image created by EHT, this tracing outlines the black hole and its apparent horizons in order to propose a strange vantage point from which pedagogical problem-posing might be interrupted, mutated, and relaunched. By turning to that which lies outside of the traditional science classroom—beyond the school, beyond curriculum, indeed, beyond the planet itself—this tracing seeks to probe this black hole event in terms of its weird and weirding pedagogical trajectories so as to speculate on unthought possibilities for resituating (science) education in the age of the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Universal interferometric signatures of a black hole’s photon ring

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. eaaz1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Johnson ◽  
Alexandru Lupsasca ◽  
Andrew Strominger ◽  
George N. Wong ◽  
Shahar Hadar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Infinite Sequence ◽  
High Order ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Tests Of General Relativity ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Self Similar

The Event Horizon Telescope image of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is dominated by a bright, unresolved ring. General relativity predicts that embedded within this image lies a thin “photon ring,” which is composed of an infinite sequence of self-similar subrings that are indexed by the number of photon orbits around the black hole. The subrings approach the edge of the black hole “shadow,” becoming exponentially narrower but weaker with increasing orbit number, with seemingly negligible contributions from high-order subrings. Here, we show that these subrings produce strong and universal signatures on long interferometric baselines. These signatures offer the possibility of precise measurements of black hole mass and spin, as well as tests of general relativity, using only a sparse interferometric array.

scholarly journals The Brightest Point in Accretion Disk and Black Hole Spin: Implication to the Image of Black Hole M87*

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev ◽  
Natalia O. Nazarova
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Accretion Disk ◽  
Disk Model ◽  
Dark Region ◽  
High Resolution Image ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Spin ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Expected Position

We propose the simple new method for extracting the value of the black hole spin from the direct high-resolution image of black hole by using a thin accretion disk model. In this model, the observed dark region on the first image of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87, obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope, is a silhouette of the black hole event horizon. The outline of this silhouette is the equator of the event horizon sphere. The dark silhouette of the black hole event horizon is placed within the expected position of the black hole shadow, which is not revealed on the first image. We calculated numerically the relation between the observed position of the black hole silhouette and the brightest point in the thin accretion disk, depending on the black hole spin. From this relation, we derive the spin of the supermassive black hole M87*, a = 0.75 ± 0.15 .

Cosmic Censorship!: Thermal Transport in a ‘Naked’ Black Hole

2011 ◽  
Vol 312-315 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
R. Leticia Corral Bustamante ◽  
Aarón Raúl Rodríguez-Corral ◽  
T.J Amador-Parra ◽  
E.A. Vázquez-Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Naked Singularity ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Einstein Equations ◽  
Semi Major Axis ◽  
High Entropy ◽  
Apparent Horizons

Cosmic censorship!: black hole wrapped up by its entropy and hidden by its event horizon. In this paper, we postulate a metric to solve the Einstein equations of general relativity, which predicts the thermodynamic behavior of a gigantic mass that collapses to a black hole; taking into account the third law of thermodynamics that states that neither physical process can produce a naked singularity. However, under certain conditions, the model allows to evident violation to the cosmic censorship, exposing the hole nakedness. During the collapse of the hole, quantum effects appear: the area decrease and radiation produced has a high entropy, so that increases total entropy and expose the presence of the hole, while the appearance of the event horizon hide the singularity of the exterior gazes. It is verified that in certain circumstances, the model predicts that the hole mass is bigger than its angular momentum; and in all circumstances, this predicts an hole with enormous superficial graveness that satisfy a relationship of the three parameters that describe the hole (mass, charge and angular momentum); factors all indicative that the singularity is not naked. Then, there are no apparent horizons in accord with cosmic censorship conjecture. Even though the surface gravity of the hole prevents destroying its horizon wrapping singularity, there exists evidence of this singularity by the results of the spin-mass relationship and the escape velocity obtained. The lost information and the slow rate of rotation of the semi-major axis of the mass (dragging space and time around itself as it rotates), agree with Einstein's prediction, show the transport of energy through heat and mass transfer, which were measured by entropy of the hole by means of coordinated semi-spherical that include the different types of intrinsic energy to the process of radiation of the hole event horizon.

scholarly journals Visible Shapes of Black Holes M87* and SgrA*

Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev ◽  
Natalia O. Nazarova
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Dark Spot ◽  
Disk Model ◽  
Milky Way Galaxy ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Visible Images ◽  
Inner Parts

We review the physical origins for possible visible images of the supermassive black hole M87* in the galaxy M87 and SgrA* in the Milky Way Galaxy. The classical dark black hole shadow of the maximal size is visible in the case of luminous background behind the black hole at the distance exceeding the so-called photon spheres. The notably smaller dark shadow (dark silhouette) of the black hole event horizon is visible if the black hole is highlighted by the inner parts of the luminous accreting matter inside the photon spheres. The first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, shows the lensed dark image of the southern hemisphere of the black hole event horizon globe, highlighted by accreting matter, while the classical black hole shadow is invisible at all. A size of the dark spot on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image agrees with a corresponding size of the dark event horizon silhouette in a thin accretion disk model in the case of either the high or moderate value of the black hole spin, a≳0.75.

scholarly journals IMAGING THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE SHADOW AND JET BASE OF M87 WITH THE EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE

2014 ◽  
Vol 788 (2) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ru-Sen Lu ◽  
Avery E. Broderick ◽  
Fabien Baron ◽  
John D. Monnier ◽  
Vincent L. Fish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole

Outbursts from the supermassive black hole in M87 and the impact on the hot gas

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Jones ◽  
W. Forman ◽  
R. Kraft ◽  
M. Markevitch ◽  
P. Nulsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals M87 Supermassive Black Hole Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mekhala Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Elliptical Galaxy ◽  
Virgo Cluster ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Cluster Of Galaxies ◽  
Hot Plasma ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Relativistic Particles

M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The radio source has a core which coincides with the nucleus of the galaxy and a jet of emission which is detected from radio to X-ray bands. A supermassive black hole is assumed to be at the centre of M87 which sends out relativistic particles in the form jets along its axis of rotation. Relativistic particles accelerated in a magnetic field, give out synchrotron radiation. The centre is surrounded by an accretion disc, which is the closest that we can probe into a black hole. High resolution observations are needed to examine the nature of the radio emission closest to the centre of M87. An array of millimetre-band telescopes across the globe were used as an interferometer, called the Event Horizon Telescope, (EHT) to probe the nuclear region. The angular resolution of this interferometer array is 25 microarc sec, at a wavelength of 1.3mm and the data was carefully calibrated and imaged. The resulting image shows an asymmetric ring which is consistent with the predictions of strong gravitational lensing of synchrotron emission from hot plasma near the event horizon. In this paper, we review the results of the observations of the radio galaxy, M87, using the Event Horizon Telescope

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