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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz1310
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- National Science Foundation [AST-1440254, AST-1716536, AST-1716327, OISE-1743747, PHY-1205550]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF-5278]
- Department of Energy [DE-SC000998, DE-SC0007870]
- NASA [HST-HF2-51431.001-A]
- Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University through John Templeton Foundation [60477]
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The Event Horizon Telescope image of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is dominated by a bright, unresolved ring. General relativity predicts that embedded within this image lies a thin photon ring, which is composed of an infinite sequence of self-similar subrings that are indexed by the number of photon orbits around the black hole. The subrings approach the edge of the black hole shadow, becoming exponentially narrower but weaker with increasing orbit number, with seemingly negligible contributions from high-order subrings. Here, we show that these subrings produce strong and universal signatures on long interferometric baselines. These signatures offer the possibility of precise measurements of black hole mass and spin, as well as tests of general relativity, using only a sparse interferometric array.
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