Polarization whorls from M87* at the event horizon telescope

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2019.0618zbMATH Open1472.83057arXiv1809.09092OpenAlexW3100077311WikidataQ96304304 ScholiaQ96304304MaRDI QIDQ5160928FDOQ5160928

Authors: Alexandru Lupsasca, Daniel Kapec, Yichen Shi, D. E. A. Gates, Andrew Strominger 

Publication date: 29 October 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is expected to soon produce polarimetric images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the neighboring galaxy M87. There are indications that this black hole is rapidly spinning. General relativity predicts that such a high-spin black hole has an emergent conformal symmetry near its event horizon. In this paper, we use this symmetry to analytically predict the polarized near-horizon emissions to be seen at the EHT and find a distinctive pattern of whorls aligned with the spin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09092

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgeneral relativityconformal symmetryrelativityastrophysicspolarimetryhigh-energy physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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