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- Title
Spins of Supermassive Black Holes M87* and SgrA* Revealed from the Size of Dark Spots in Event Horizon Telescope Images.
- Authors
Dokuchaev, Vyacheslav Ivanovich
- Abstract
We reconstructed dark spots in the images of supermassive black holes SgrA* and M87* provided by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration by using the geometrically thin accretion disk model. In this model, the black hole is highlighted by the hot accretion matter up to the very vicinity of the black hole event horizon. The existence of hot accretion matter in the vicinity of black hole event horizons is predicted by the Blandford–Znajek mechanism, which is confirmed by recent general relativistic MHD simulations in supercomputers. A dark spot in the black hole image in the described model is a gravitationally lensed image of an event horizon globe. The lensed images of event horizons are always projected at the celestial sphere inside the awaited positions of the classical black hole shadows, which are invisible in both cases of M87* and SgrA*. We used the sizes of dark spots in the images of SgrA* and M87* for inferring their spins, 0.65 < a < 0.9 and a > 0.75 , accordingly.
- Subjects
BLACK holes; TELESCOPES; GENERAL relativity (Physics); SUPERCOMPUTERS; GEOMETRIC analysis
- Publication
Astronomy (2674-0346), 2023, Vol 2, Issue 3, p141
- ISSN
2674-0346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/astronomy2030010