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arXiv:1804.03909astro-ph.IM

Seeing Black Holes : from the Computer to the Telescope

Jean-Pierre Luminet

Abstract

Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of the massive black hole lurking at the Galactic Center. The mass of data collected in one night by the Event Horizon Telescope network, exceeding everything that has ever been done in any scientific field, should provide a recomposed image during 2018. All this, forty years after the first numerical simulations done by the present author.

arXiv comments
12 pages, 9 figures. Extented version of an article originally published in French in La Recherche vol.533 (mars 2018)
Journal reference
Universe 2018, 4(8), 86
DOI
doi:10.3390/universe4080086
Subjects
astro-ph.IMInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.HEHigh Energy Astrophysical Phenomena gr-qcGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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  1. Raytracing a Black Hole 2 comments

    • And in the coming years astronomers hope to image a black hole directly (in radio wavelengths). The few closest supermassive black holes (in center of galaxies) have their event horizon angular diameters just big enough to be resolved by VLBI (very-long-baseline interferometry).…

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    • Compare Jean-Pierre Luminet's https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03909 which discusses Interstellar starting at the bottom of the third page of the pdf.

      raattgiftView on HNParent context

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