Testing General Relativity with NuSTAR Data of Galactic Black Holes

Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts that the spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. In this work, we employ state-of-the-art relativistic reflection modeling to analyze a selected set of NuSTAR spectra of Galactic black holes to obtain the most robust and precise constraints on the Kerr black hole hypothesis possible today. Our constraints are much more stringent than those from other electromagnetic techniques and, with some sources, we find stronger constraints than those currently available from gravitational waves.

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The study employed advanced techniques to analyze a selection of spectra from Galactic black holes, obtaining the most stringent and precise constraints on the Kerr black hole hypothesis compared to other methods.