Probing the spacetime around supermassive black holes with ejected plasma blobs
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Christian, Pierre
Loeb, Abraham
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Christian, Pierre, and Abraham Loeb. 2015. “Probing the Spacetime around Supermassive Black Holes with Ejected Plasma Blobs.” Physical Review D 91 (10). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.91.101301.Abstract
Millimeter-wavelength very-long-baseline-interferometry observations of the supermassive black holes in Sgr A* and M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope could potentially trace the dynamics of ejected plasma blobs in real time. We demonstrate that the trajectory and tidal stretching of these blobs can be used to test general relativity and set new constraints on the mass and spin of these black holes.Terms of Use
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