EHT observational data for M87 * and Sgr A * shadows

EHT observational data for M87 * and Sgr A * shadows

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Black hole solutions in general relativity come with pathologies such as singularity and mass inflation instability, which are believed to be cured by a yet-to-be-found quantum theory of gravity. Without such consistent description, one may model theory-agnostic phenomenological black holes that bypass the aforesaid issues. These so-called regular...

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... for fixed values of (M, a * , θ i , D), there can be a range of e-values for which the shadow will be inconsistent with the angular size θ d [60,61] as observed by EHT, check Table 1. For this purpose, let us first consider the , we have shown below the variation in shadow size using contour plots Fig. 4. From these plots, it is very easy to identify the disallowed regions which are inconsistent with EHT observations. ...

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