The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

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²¹Haifa Research Center for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel

²²Department of Astronomical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan

²³Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

²⁴KISPE Space Systems Limited, Farnborough, United Kingdom

²⁵Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

²⁶Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA

²⁷Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

²⁸Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA

²⁹National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

³⁰Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

³¹Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

³²Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan

³³National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305

³⁴Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

³⁵School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Introduction

Black holes are central to questions of stellar evolution, galaxy formation and mergers, astrophysical jets, and the nature of spacetime. They are prodigious energy sources, liberating gravitational energy to power the brightest objects in the Universe.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Supermassive black holes are ubiquitous in galactic cores,[6, 7, 8, 9] and their spin can launch and power relativistic jets that extend over thousands of parsecs, ultimately shaping evolution on galactic scales.[10, 11, 12] Yet, the vast influence of black holes originates from their defining property on the smallest scale: a gravitational singularity enshrouded within an event horizon.

Over the past decade, our ability to directly study event-horizon-scale physics using images has been revolutionized by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The EHT is an Earth-spanning very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that has produced images at $\sim230$ GHz (corresponding to a wavelength of $\lambda= 1.3$ mm).[13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29] The longest baselines of the EHT have a length of $d \approx11{,}000$ km, with a corresponding angular resolution $\lambda/d \approx20$ $\mu$as. This resolution is only a few times larger than the angular gravitational scales $\theta_{\mathrm{g}} = GM/(c^2D)$ of its two primary targets: $M87^*$ ($\theta_{\mathrm{g}} \approx4$ $\mu$as), the $M \approx6 \times10^9 M_\odot$ black hole at the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located $D \approx53$ million light years away, and Sgr $A^*$ ($\theta_{\mathrm{g}} \approx5$ $\mu$as), the $M \approx4 \times10^6 M_\odot$ black hole at the center of the Milky Way, $D \approx27{,}000$ light years away. Previous VLBI studies of $M87^*$ and Sgr $A^*$—even those with space VLBI[30, 31]—could not access these scales because they were performed at lower frequencies, where synchrotron self-absorption (for both targets) and interstellar scattering (for Sgr $A^*$) entirely obscure horizon-scale features. The combination of the sharp angular resolution and high observing frequencies with the EHT revealed a dark central region (the “apparent shadow”[32]) in each source, with a diameter of about $10\theta_{\mathrm{g}}$.

The EHT images have had a profound influence across the astronomy and physics communities, and they prompted a worldwide explosion of interest in black holes from the general public. The EHT image of $M87^*$ features prominently in the Astro2020 Decadal Survey,[39] which noted the important role that such observations could play in two of its three organizing science themes—“Cosmic Ecosystems” and “New Messengers and New Physics”—particularly in pursuit of answers to fundamental questions about accretion, jets, galaxy evolution, and strong-field gravity. At EHT resolution, we are beginning to see the structures controlling inflow and outflow around the black hole, but are limited in what we can discern about spacetime itself or the mechanism through which black holes anchor, launch, and power their relativistic jets.[40] For example, while the EHT images give the masses of $M87^*$ and Sgr $A^*$ to an accuracy of $\sim10\%$, they do not directly constrain either black hole’s spin. Finer details in the images of black holes, just beyond the reach of an Earth-bound VLBI array, reflect crisp relativistic features and would enable truly fundamental discoveries.

Recently, we have shown that general relativity predicts a universal feature of black hole images: a sharp ring of light formed by photons that escape after orbiting near the event horizon, known as the “photon ring.”[41, 42]

This photon ring arises from the family of unstable spherical photon orbits near a Kerr black hole.[43, 44, 45] The properties of the black hole, including its spin, are elegantly encoded in the photon ring, as is the origin of black hole feedback power.[41, 42, 46, 47, 48] For ground-ground VLBI baselines, the photon ring is blended with the more weakly lensed emission,[49] but it can be isolated using space-ground VLBI baselines where the signal is dominated by the sharpest image features.[41, 50, 51] Moreover, it can be studied using a sparse interferometric array because of a telltale “ringing” pattern in interferometric space.[41, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, ?, ?]

Motivated by the promise of such measurements, we have developed a concept for a mission that would extend the EHT to space: the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX; see Figure 1 and Figure 2). This work has included contributions from over 100 scientists and engineers, focused workshops on science and engineering,[?, ?] white papers summarizing the potential capabilities of space VLBI and exploring a variety of mission concepts,[?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?] detailed studies on crucial technologies,[?] and extensive international contributions that include a burgeoning consortium of scientists and engineers from the Japanese space community.[?] BHEX will operate as a “hybrid observatory”,[?, ?] combining mission-critical infrastructure on the ground and in space. In particular, these efforts to develop BHEX are catalyzed by intensive parallel efforts to expand the ground-based capabilities of the EHT through higher-frequency observations,[?, ?] major upgrades and expansion of the array,[33, ?, ?, ?, ?] frequency phase transfer through simultaneous multi-band observations,[?, ?, ?, ?] and enhancements of the most sensitive ground facilities such as the ALMA Observatory.[?, ?]

In this paper, we describe our vision for BHEX and the technology and instrumentation that makes it possible to launch as a NASA Explorers mission within the next decade. We begin by summarizing the science goals (Section 2) and their associated requirements (Section 3). We then describe the instrument and its associated heritage (Section 4) and the concept of operations (Section 5). We conclude with a summary of the mission status and pathway to launch (Section 6). A series of associated white papers describe the BHEX instrument,[?] its associated subsystems,[?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?] the planned coordination with ground networks,[?] as well as several of the primary science drivers for the mission.[?, ?, ?]

Science Goals

We now summarize the primary science goals for BHEX. These goals address some of the most pressing open questions in black hole science across three broad themes. In Section 2.1, we describe how BHEX will reveal fundamental properties of supermassive black holes through studies of the photon rings in M87* and Sgr A*. In Section 2.2, we describe how BHEX will determine how supermassive black holes launch and accelerate relativistic jets through measurements of the jet collimation profile, polarization structure, and dynamics in a sample of active galactic nuclei. Finally, in Section 2.3, we show how BHEX will probe the growth of supermassive black holes by measuring the horizon-scale properties of a population of supermassive black holes in low accretion states across a variety of galaxy morphologies. Figure 3 summarizes potential targets for BHEX across these three science goals. For discussion of additional science opportunities with BHEX, including a potential single-dish mode, see Ref. [?].

Precision Measurements of Black Holes: the Photon Ring

Photons passing near a black hole can fall in or escape to infinity. Between those two possibilities are unstable orbits that lie on spherical surfaces.[43, ?]ref-44` For a non-rotating (Schwarzschild) black hole, these orbits have a common radius (defining the “photon sphere”). For a spinning (Kerr) black hole, these orbits lie within a range of radii (defining the “photon shell”).

This shell of unstable spherical photon orbits produces a striking image feature, produced from light that has orbited the black hole before escaping: the photon ring (see Figure 1 and Figure 4).[41, ?]ref-91` Because the photon ring is a result of gravitational lensing, it is generically seen on simulated images,[41, ?, ?] including those from state-of-the-art general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations,[17, 26, ?, ?] whenever the emission is optically thin (see Figure 5). In addition, the photon ring is a universal signature—the surrounding matter has negligible effects on the trajectory of light. Thus, resolved measurements of the photon ring present an extraordinary opportunity for detailed studies of a black hole’s spacetime.

The most technically demanding goal of BHEX is to discover the predicted photon rings in M87* and Sgr A*, with measurements that are precise enough to directly measure the black hole spins. In particular, BHEX can provide a firm, model-independent detection of the photon ring by measuring its distinctive interferometric signature for the time-averaged signal on long baselines: a damped periodic signal as a function of baseline length

(see Figure 6).[41] Because the dimensionless baseline length $u = d/\lambda$ depends on both the physical baseline length $d$ and the observing wavelength, $\lambda$, a single ground-space baseline can see the periodic oscillation in $u$ as long as the stations in the baseline instantaneously capture a wide enough range of wavelengths. Thus, BHEX has the ability to uncover this prediction of general relativity through its recently discovered imprint that is only accessible on space-VLBI baselines,[41, 46, 49, 52, 57, ?, ?] as well as through direct imaging (see Figure 7).

BHEX measurements of the photon ring would provide unambiguous measurements of black hole spin (see Figure 8). Specifically, a spinning black hole has a non-circular photon ring, with a degree of asymmetry that increases with the magnitude of the black hole’s spin.[55, ?, ?] Thus, precise measurements of the photon ring offer an opportunity to make this fundamental measurement of the spin of M87* and to test whether the black hole’s spin is indeed the energy source for its powerful jet.[10, 48, ?] We note that there are no previous measurements of spin in supermassive black holes that are not strongly dependent on astrophysical assumptions. One of the most relied-upon methods currently uses models of accretion disks and their predicted x-ray reflection spectra to match against observed fluorescent emission lines; the precise shape and width of these emission lines depends on the depth to which the accretion disk’s inner edge lies, which in turn depends on the black hole spin and the assumption that the reflected emission truncates at this inner edge.[?, ?] For additional discussion of the details and scientific opportunities related to photon ring measurements for BHEX, see Refs. [?, ?].

The photon ring also provides an avenue to explore exotic alternatives to Kerr black holes. At the resolution of the EHT, these alternatives can effectively mimic the appearance of a Kerr black hole.[?, ?, ?, ?, ?] However, they can produce strikingly different photon rings at scales accessible to BHEX. For instance, boson stars—macroscopic quantum objects with no hard surface, no horizon, and no singularity—may possess no photon shell and thus exhibit no photon ring in the image, depending on their discreet angular momentum and scalar field compactness.[?] By contrast, images of wormholes can produce multiple photon rings, composed of light bent around photon shells on both sides of the wormhole.[?] For additional discussion of how extensions of the EHT can be used to constrain fundamental physics, see Ref. [?].

The Origin of Relativistic Jets from Supermassive Black Holes

One of the most remarkable byproducts of black hole accretion is the production of relativistic jets. These jets are among the most energetic phenomena in our universe, emitting radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio wavelengths to the $\gamma$-ray regime, and even accelerating particles to the highest measured energies.[12] High-resolution VLBI observations and numerical simulations have advanced our understanding of the accretion processes and the ensuing jet formation. Observations with the EHT have enabled us to probe the innermost regions of the accretion flow and the base of the jet in unprecedented detail, revealing intricate structures and magnetic field configurations crucial for jet launching.[48] These findings support the hypothesis that the interplay between the black hole spin and the magnetic field topology near the event horizon plays a pivotal role in jet formation. Moreover, GRMHD simulations have demonstrated that the efficiency of jet production is strongly dependent on the black hole spin parameter and the magnetic flux accumulated in the vicinity of the black hole.[10] Despite these advancements, the exact processes governing the conversion of accreted mass and energy into collimated, relativistic outflows remain largely unknown.

Among the various types of active galactic nuclei (AGN), blazars are particularly notable for their highly energetic jets pointed almost directly toward Earth. Mapping the innermost regions of blazar jets to understand how they are launched, collimated, and accelerated, as well as the role played by magnetic fields in these processes, requires state-of-the-art VLBI observations with the highest possible angular resolution. Space-VLBI observations at centimeter wavelengths with RadioAstron have enabled the mapping of blazar jets with angular resolutions on the order of tens of microarcseconds. These observations have revealed how the jet in the powerful radiogalaxy 3C84 is collimated,[?] the presence of helical magnetic fields launching powerful relativistic jets in BL Lac,[?] and how the development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities leads to the formation of filaments in the jet of 3C279,[?] structures that remain hidden when observed with ground-only arrays. Conversely, ground-based millimeter VLBI observations with the Event Horizon Telescope offer the highest possible angular resolution achievable from the ground, reaching 20 $\mu\mathrm{as}$. These observations operate at wavelengths where the blazar sources are optically thin, allowing us to penetrate the deepest regions of blazars and study areas closest to the black hole, which remain hidden behind an opacity curtain at other wavelengths. The EHT observations of the blazar 3C279 have revealed an unexpected twisted and bent jet structure close to the central black hole,[?] while observations of Centaurus A have detailed the jet collimation and its connection to the supermassive black hole,[?] enhancing our understanding of jet formation and acceleration mechanisms. These results (see also Refs. [?, ?, ?]) highlight the transformative potential of the EHT in advancing our knowledge of relativistic jets in AGN. The next natural step to obtain the sharpest view of blazar jets as close as possible to the central black hole is to perform space-VLBI observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths with BHEX, capable of achieving angular resolutions of just a few microarcseconds.

Another key aspect to understand the nature of blazar jets is to decipher where and how the high energy emission observed from these objects is produced. Multi-wavelength observations have shown that flares in $\gamma$-rays are usually preceded by a rapid rotation of the optical polarization angle at optical and millimeter wavelengths, which provides evidence for the existence of a helical magnetic field in the innermost jet regions, where the plasma is accelerated and collimated.[?, ?, ?] Correlations among the different spectral bands have also allowed to locate the site of the $\gamma$-ray emission parsecs away from the central engine in OJ287, AO 0235+164, 3C120, and CTA102.[?, ?, ?, ?, ?]

In recent years, there has been a growing association between flaring activity in blazars and neutrino events. High-energy neutrino detections by telescopes like IceCube have been temporally linked to blazar flares, as exemplified by the case of TXS 0506+056.[?] Further studies have shown a statistically significant association between neutrino sources and the brightest cores of blazars, suggesting that these are likely sites of neutrino production.[?] The correlation between a sharp gamma-ray and optical flare with the 8 December 2022 neutrino detected toward 0735+178 adds to the evidence supporting this connection.[?]

Figure 3 illustrates some of the most promising AGN targets for the BHEX mission. These targets include potential supermassive binary black hole systems, neutrino candidates, nearby AGN where we can study jet formation and dynamics as close as possible to the central engine, and some of the brightest $\gamma$-ray sources in the sky.

Supermassive Black Hole Demographics and Growth

Finally, while BHEX will only be able to probe the photon rings for the most massive and nearby SMBHs (primarily M87* and Sgr A*), it will be able to spatially resolve the horizon-scale emission for black holes that are substantially less massive or more distant, providing images comparable in quality to the current EHT images of M87* and Sgr A*. The ring-like structures seen by the EHT towards M87* and Sgr A* are expected to be ubiquitous for accreting black holes observed in the optically thin regime, and the angular diameter of the emission ring $\theta_{\mathrm{r}}$ is proportional to the black hole’s mass-to-distance ratio: $\theta_{\mathrm{r}} \approx10M/D$.[?]

The angular resolution of BHEX will in principle be sufficient to spatially resolve dozens of additional SMBH shadows in the nearby ($z \lesssim0.1$) Universe.[?] Unlike most AGN samples, which are biased towards (rarer) high-Eddington ratio objects, BHEX targets for horizon-scale studies will be predominantly those with low Eddington ratios, more representative of the typical accretion states of supermassive black holes. Figure 9 shows the estimated Eddington ratios and black hole masses for a subset of candidate BHEX targets from Ref. [?], selected from the ongoing Event Horizon and Environs (ETHER) survey.[?, ?] Eddington ratios are estimated based on the 230 GHz flux density; black hole masses are typically derived from dynamical modeling.

By expanding the sample of horizon-resolved black holes beyond merely Sgr A* and $M87^{*}$, BHEX will enable demographic studies in poorly explored regions in parameter space. These dimensions include the following:

• Black Hole Mass: By measuring source sizes and applying the techniques already developed and employed for $M87^{*}$[18] and Sgr A*[25, 27], BHEX will substantially increase the number of SMBHs with precisely measured masses. Interestingly, the sample of promising BHEX targets overlaps with the list of objects most likely to produce observable nHz gravitational waves.[?] The large amplitude of the nHz gravitational wave background has motivated scrutiny of the high-mass end of the black hole mass function.[?, ?] Direct mass measurements with BHEX will synergize with gravitational wave science to help resolve these newfound tensions.

• Eddington Ratio: The study of Ref. [?] predicts that most new targets should have larger Eddington ratios than those inferred for either $M87^{*}$ or Sgr A* ($\sim10^{-5}$ and $\sim10^{-7}$ respectively[20, 29]), up to $\sim10^{-4}$.[?] At these higher accretion rates, radiative cooling will become important,[?] which is typically neglected for Sgr A* and $M87^{*}$.

• Spin: If the underlying population of black holes spans a range in spin, then we may observe spin-driven differences in accretion disk and jet activity. The Blandford-Znajek mechanism predicts that the jet power should be proportional to the square of the spin,[10] which can be directly tested using samples such as those presented in Figure 9 that include both radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN. The distribution of SMBH spins in the local Universe should encode details of their growth histories, including spin-down from jets,[?, ?] SMBH-SMBH mergers,[?, ?] and the relative frequency of prograde versus retrograde accretion.[?]

• Inclination: Our views of $M87^{*}$ and Sgr A* are close to face-on.[29, ?] The general population should naturally exhibit a uniform distribution of viewing angles. Polarized emission should evolve substantially as a function of inclination due to geometric effects and Faraday rotation.[29, ?] Polarized imaging of the

expanded BHEX sample will enable inferences of the three-dimensional structure of accretion disks and jets.

• Environment: The most promising candidate targets for BHEX include elliptical galaxies, lenticulars, and even spirals (e.g., the Sombrero Galaxy, NGC 4594). Not all ellipticals are central cluster galaxies like M87, and at least one is at the center of a less massive galaxy group (NGC4261;[?]). Thus, studies with BHEX in combination with images on larger scales will connect the accretion and jet launching of black holes to their environment in a variety of intra- and inter-galactic environments.

Requirements

General Considerations for Space VLBI

The most demanding requirements for BHEX are those related to detecting and measuring the photon rings in M87$^*$ and Sgr A$^*$. This requires both that 1) the photon ring is visible on the sky and that 2) BHEX has sufficient angular resolution and sensitivity to measure the photon ring.

To ensure that the photon ring is visible, BHEX must observe M87$^*$ and Sgr A$^*$ at high enough frequencies that optical depth to synchrotron self-absorption does not hide the photon ring. General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations have been extremely successful in producing models that are consistent with EHT observations of M87$^*$ and Sgr A$^*$ and can generate images with angular resolution of $\mu\mathrm{as}$ or less, providing a firm basis to derive requirements for BHEX. These simulations have been developed for decades and are highly constrained by EHT measurements.[17, 20, 21, 26, 29] As shown in Figure 10, these simulations indicate that BHEX must observe above 200 GHz to ensure that the optical depth is $\tau< 1$, allowing access to the photon rings in M87$^*$ and Sgr A$^*$.

In addition, radio observations are affected by lines of sight through the ionized interstellar medium, which has an index of refraction that varies with the local electron density, introducing scattering.[?, ?] While scattering is negligible for most sources at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths, the scattering toward Sgr A$^*$ is approximately 1000 times stronger than typical lines of sight.[?] Scattering obscures the photon ring and reduces the flux density on long baselines.[?] Thus, while angular resolution requirements set a lower limit on the length of BHEX baselines, scattering sets an upper limit on the useful baseline length for a given observing frequency or, equivalently, a lower limit on the observing frequency for a given baseline:

$$\nu\gtrsim280\ \mathrm{GHz}\left(\frac{b}{20{,}000\ \mathrm{km}}\right). \tag*{(1)}$$

The scattering has been studied intensively at centimeter wavelengths,[?, ?, ?] giving rise to a detailed predictive model for BHEX.[?, ?] Because of ISM scattering, BHEX must observe above 300 GHz to access the photon ring in Sgr A$^*$. Because the scattering of M87$^*$ is 1,000 times weaker than that of Sgr A$^*$, this requirement only affects Sgr A$^*$.

Finally, because the interferometric resolution of BHEX is determined by its separation from the ground-based stations, its orbit is tuned to see spatial scales where the photon ring dominates over smoother, more weakly lensed emission. For M87$^*$ and Sgr A$^*$, this transition occurs at approximately 20 G$\lambda$.

Key Performance Metrics

BHEX is primarily a mission for continuum VLBI, limited by angular resolution ($\lambda/D$) and sensitivity. The angular resolution of a baseline depends only on the length $b$ of the baseline projected orthogonal to the line of sight and on the observing wavelength:

$$\theta\approx10\ \mu\mathrm{as}\times\left(\frac{\lambda}{1\ \mathrm{mm}}\right)\left(\frac{b}{20{,}000\ \mathrm{km}}\right)^{-1} \tag*{(2)}$$

$$\approx(8\ \mu\mathrm{as})\times\left(\frac{\lambda}{1\ \mathrm{mm}}\right)\left(\frac{\mathrm{Altitude}}{20{,}000\ \mathrm{km}}\right)^{-1} \tag*{(3)}$$

The sensitivity of a radio telescope is commonly quantified by its system equivalent flux density (SEFD):[?]

$$\mathrm{SEFD}=\frac{2k_{\mathrm{B}}T_{\mathrm{sys}}^*}{\eta_{\mathrm{A}}A}. \tag*{(4)}$$

In this expression, $k_{\mathrm{B}}$ is the Bolzmann constant, $T_{\mathrm{sys}}^*$ is the effective system temperature, $\eta_{\mathrm{A}}$ is the aperture efficiency of the telescope, and $A$ is the geometric area of the dish. The aperture efficiency depends on a number of factors including the reflector design and losses from surface deformations with RMS surface errors of $\epsilon$ (Ruze losses):

$$\eta_{\mathrm{A,Ruze}}=e^{-\left(\frac{4\pi\epsilon}{\lambda}\right)^2} \tag*{(5)}$$

For example, to ensure that $\eta_{\mathrm{A,Ruze}}>0.75$ for the highest observing frequency of BHEX (320 GHz) requires $\epsilon<40\ \mu\mathrm{m}$.

Because BHEX does not have any contribution from atmospheric emission or absorption, $T_{\mathrm{sys}}^*$ is approximately equal to the receiver noise temperature, $T_{\mathrm{R}}$. Putting in characteristic values, we obtain

$$\mathrm{SEFD}\approx20{,}000\ \mathrm{Jy}\times\left(\frac{T_{\mathrm{R}}}{50\ \mathrm{K}}\right)\left(\frac{D}{3.5\ \mathrm{m}}\right)^{-2}\left(\frac{\eta_{\mathrm{A}}}{0.7}\right)^{-1} \tag*{(6)}$$

$$\approx10{,}000\ \mathrm{Jy}\times\left(\frac{\nu}{100\ \mathrm{GHz}}\right)\left(\frac{D}{3.5\ \mathrm{m}}\right)^{-2}\left(\frac{\eta_{\mathrm{R}}}{0.2}\right)^{-1}\left(\frac{\eta_{\mathrm{A}}}{0.7}\right)^{-1}. \tag*{(7)}$$

In the final expression, we have introduced $\eta_{\mathrm{R}}\equiv T_{\mathrm{R}}/T_{\mathrm{Q}}$, which gives the performance of a receiver relative to its quantum limit $T_{\mathrm{Q}}\equiv h\nu/k_{\mathrm{B}}\approx4.8\ \mathrm{K}\times\left(\frac{\nu}{100\ \mathrm{GHz}}\right)$.[?, ?] To compute the SEFD for dual-sideband (DSB) receivers, the receiver noise temperature must be doubled to account for noise in both sidebands.

For continuum VLBI observations, which will be used for all the primary BHEX science goals, the most important quantity is the ground-space baseline sensitivity (expressed as the RMS thermal noise, $\sigma_{\mathrm{G-S}}$). This quantity depends on the properties of both the ground and space telescopes:

$$\sigma_{\mathrm{G-S}} = \frac{1}{\eta_{\mathrm{Q}}}\sqrt{\frac{\mathrm{SEFD}_{\mathrm{G}} \mathrm{SEFD}_{\mathrm{S}}}{2 \Delta\nu\Delta t}}. \tag*{(8)}$$

Here, $\Delta\nu$ is the averaged bandwidth (single polarization), $\Delta t$ is the (coherent) integration time, and $\eta_{\mathrm{Q}} \le1$ is a factor that accounts for losses in coarse digitization of the electric field (for BHEX baselines, $\eta_{\mathrm{Q}} = 0.75$; see Section 4.4). We note that the baseline length does not affect the baseline sensitivity. For the original EHT observations of M87*, the median SEFD at $\nu= 230$ GHz across all sites was 5,000 Jy, with the best performance of 74 Jy (a phased array of 37 12-m ALMA dishes). Several other EHT sites (e.g., NOEMA and LMT) also achieve SEFD $< 1{,}000$ Jy in typical weather conditions for a source at moderately high elevation.

Putting in characteristic values for strong baselines, we obtain

$$\sigma_{\mathrm{G-S}} \approx5\,\mathrm{mJy} \times\left(\frac{\mathrm{SEFD}_{\mathrm{G}}}{1{,}000\,\mathrm{Jy}}\right)^{1/2} \left(\frac{\mathrm{SEFD}_{\mathrm{S}}}{20{,}000\,\mathrm{Jy}}\right)^{1/2} \left(\frac{\Delta\nu}{8\,\mathrm{GHz}}\right)^{-1/2} \left(\frac{\Delta t}{100\,\mathrm{s}}\right)^{-1/2}. \tag*{(9)}$$

All elements of the system combine to determine this baseline sensitivity, resulting in a rich trade space.

Frequency phase transfer between the secondary ($\nu_2$) and primary ($\nu_1$) receivers for BHEX will require reaching a signal-to-noise ratio of approximately S/N $\gtrsim\nu_1/\nu_2$ for the signal of the secondary receiver in the coherence time associated with the primary receiver. For instance, if the coherence time at 320 GHz is 10 seconds, frequency phase transfer from 80 to 320 GHz would require reaching a signal-to-noise ratio at 80 GHz of S/N $\gtrsim4$ in 10 seconds of integration. The signal could then be coherently integrated in both bands for longer times (typically over a full $\sim$10-minute scan). For additional details on frequency phase transfer, including results for a power-law spectrum of phase fluctuations, see Ref. [35].

Requirements for Photon Ring Detections

The precise expected signal from a black hole depends on a multitude of details about the black hole system, many of which are poorly constrained. However, in the optically thin regime (which is appropriate for observations of M87* and Sgr A* at submillimeter wavelengths), the signal on long baselines takes a universal form that is determined solely by basic considerations of the gravitational lensing.⁷ Specifically, $\sim20\%$ of the flux density comes from the black hole’s “photon ring,” and this flux falls as $u^{-3/2}$ on long baselines as the photon ring is increasingly resolved. Here, $u$ is the baseline length in units of the observing wavelength, with a corresponding angular resolution (or fringe spacing) $\theta= 1/u$.

Because the flux density of the compact components of the sources such as M87* and Sgr A* are known, we can compute the expected photon ring signal on a long baseline. For instance, for M87*,

$$|V| \approx30\,\mathrm{mJy} \times\left(\frac{u}{10\,\mathrm{G}\lambda}\right)^{-3/2} \tag*{(10)}$$

$$\approx0.3\,\mathrm{mJy} \times\left(\frac{\theta}{1\,\mu\mathrm{as}}\right)^{3/2}. \tag*{(11)}$$

For Sgr A*, a similar equation holds, accounting for the substantially higher compact flux density and somewhat larger photon ring, but the equation must also be multiplied by the diffractive scattering kernel. [?, ?]

Requirements for Non-Photon-Ring Science and Calibration Targets

For BHEX observations of marginally resolved LLAGN or knots in blazar jets, the flux density is limited by the maximum brightness temperature of incoherent synchrotron emission: $T_{\mathrm{b}} \lesssim10^{11}$ K. [?, ?] Note that the observed brightness temperature can exceed this limit by an order of magnitude because of relativistic Doppler effects, as is commonly seen in blazar jets. Since bright, marginally resolved sources are also ideal calibration targets for BHEX, this type of source is also useful to define emission requirements for calibrators.⁷: Footnote text not visible on this page.

For a Gaussian distribution of flux density, the central (peak) brightness temperature is $T_{\mathrm{b,max}} = \frac{2\ln(2)c^{2}}{\pi\nu^{2}k_{\mathrm{B}}\theta^{2}}F_{0}$. Putting in characteristic values,

$$T_{\mathrm{b,max}} = (1.45 \times10^{10}\ \mathrm{K}) \times\left(\frac{\nu}{230\ \mathrm{GHz}}\right)^{-2} \left(\frac{F_{0}}{1\ \mathrm{Jy}}\right) \left(\frac{\theta}{40\ \mu\mathrm{as}}\right)^{-2}. \tag*{(12)}$$

The visibility domain response takes the form:

$$V(u) = F_{0}\exp\left(-\frac{\pi b^{2}F_{0}}{2k_{\mathrm{B}}T_{\mathrm{b}}}\right). \tag*{(13)}$$

Critically, the visibility amplitude depends only on the (projected) physical baseline length $b$ (rather than the dimensionless length $b/\lambda$). On a fixed baseline $b$, (13) is maximized when $F_{0} = \frac{2k_{\mathrm{B}}T}{\pi b^{2}}$. Thus, under the assumption of a Gaussian emitting region, this type of source gives a peak correlated flux density that only depends on the brightness temperature and physical baseline length:

$$\lvert V(b)\rvert\le(300\ \mathrm{mJy}) \times\left(\frac{T_{\mathrm{b}}}{10^{11}\ \mathrm{K}}\right)\left(\frac{b}{10^{4}\ \mathrm{km}}\right)^{-2}. \tag*{(14)}$$

Hence, BHEX will primarily be sensitive to compact emitting regions with $T_{\mathrm{b}} \gtrsim10^{11}$ K and $F_{0} \lesssim100$ mJy (see Table 1). We note that this limit applies exclusively to marginally resolved emitting regions. For heavily resolved regions, the flux density can be substantially higher than the Gaussian prediction from the overall source morphology (e.g., in the case of the photon ring) or substructure within the image.

	Total Flux Density	BHEX Flux Density
M87$^{*}$
80 GHz	0.6 Jy	40 mJy
240 GHz	0.5 Jy	10 mJy
320 GHz	0.35 Jy	5 mJy
Sgr A$^{*}$
80 GHz	3 Jy	3 mJy
240 GHz	3.5 Jy	5 mJy
320 GHz	3.5 Jy	10 mJy
$T_{\mathrm{b}} = 10^{12}$ K	100 mJy	88 mJy
	50 mJy	47 mJy
	10 mJy	9.9 mJy
$T_{\mathrm{b}} = 10^{11}$ K	100 mJy	29 mJy
	50 mJy	27 mJy
	10 mJy	8.8 mJy
$T_{\mathrm{b}} = 10^{10}$ K	100 mJy	0 mJy
	50 mJy	0.1 mJy
	10 mJy	2.9 mJy

Instrument and Technical Heritage

BHEX builds upon the lessons of space-VLBI missions at centimeter wavelengths: TDRSS,[?] VSOP,[36] and RadioAstron[37] (for a brief review of space VLBI, see Refs. [?, ?, ?]). The BHEX instrument is a radio telescope and (heterodyne) receiver system, similar to the corresponding ground systems at all EHT stations [for an overview of these systems, see Ref. [14].

In this section, we briefly summarize each of the six subsystems of the BHEX instrument: the antenna (Section 4.1), the receiver (Section 4.2), the cryocooler (Section 4.3), the digital back end (Section 4.4), the frequency reference (Section 4.5), and the optical data transmission (Section 4.6). Each of these subsystems leverages substantial space heritage and has been designed after considering a broad trade space; see Ref. [?]. A more detailed description of the BHEX instrument is given in Ref. [?].

Antenna

The BHEX antenna will have a rigid 3.5 m circular aperture. To minimize the mass, the antenna will employ a metallized carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) sandwich construction. This approach has been successfully used in past missions including Planck.[?] To achieve our required sensitivity at the highest observing frequency (320 GHz), a high surface accuracy with less than 40 $\mu$m rms is targeted. The current optical design incorporates a symmetric, dual reflector configuration that achieves an aperture illumination efficiency of $\eta_a \approx90\%$. Further exploration of design choices and parameter space and reflector shaping studies are in progress.

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design, see Refs. [?, ?].

Receiver

BHEX includes two dual-polarization receivers together with an optical diplexer that allows them to observe simultaneously. The primary receiver will be double-side-band (DSB) operating over the frequency range 240-320 GHz with a Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) mixer. SIS mixers are standard in ground submillimeter telescopes, were used in the Herschel mission,[?, ?] and are being actively developed for a variety of terrestrial and space applications.[?, ?, ?] The secondary receiver will be single-side-band (SSB) operating over the frequency range 80-106 GHz with a cryogenic low noise amplifier, which are commercially available.

On baselines from BHEX to ground stations, rapid phase variations are dominated by fluctuations in the troposphere and from errors in reference oscillators. Because all these contributions are non-dispersive delays, measurements at low frequencies can be used to stabilize the phase at high frequencies, substantially increasing the coherence time and, hence, the achievable sensitivity. This technique, known as frequency phase transfer, has been used routinely in centimeter observations,[?] and is a major focus of ongoing EHT upgrades.[?, ?, ?, ?] The receivers of BHEX are designed to enable this technique, transferring phase measurements from the secondary band to derive phase corrections for the primary band. This design both improves the sensitivity of BHEX and mitigates the requirements for the reference frequency.

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design of the BHEX receivers, see Ref. [?].

Cryocooler

The BHEX receiver suite requires cryogenic cooling to achieve the required receiver noise temperatures, close to the quantum noise limit $T_{\mathrm{Q}} = h\nu/k$ (see Section 4.2). The SIS mixers of the primary receiver, in particular, must be cooled to 4.5 K (approximately half the critical temperature of the SIS junction), while the low noise amplifier of the secondary receiver performs better when cooled to 20 K. It is worth noting that BHEX only requires a modest heat lift to cool the receiver suite and does not need to cool the dish. BHEX aims to leverage existing cryogenic technology, where the majority of the key cryogenic components within these technologies boast established spaceflight heritage. Recent missions (e.g., SMILES/JEM, ASTRO-H, XRISM) include closed-cycle 4 K cryocoolers that are a good match to the BHEX design and requirements.

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design of the BHEX cryocooler, see Ref. [?].

Block Downconverter and Digital Back End

Following the receiver, the digital stage of BHEX requires a block downconverter (BDC) and a digital back end that can sample and digitize a combined 32 GHz of analog bandwidth. Because the sampled signal is a zero-mean Gaussian random field (corresponding to band-limited noise from both the source and thermal background noise), no additional data compression can be applied before downlink, aggregation with the data from other participating observatories, and correlation.[?]

The BHEX digital back end is informed by state-of-the-art EHT designs, which must operate in harsh terrestrial environments (e.g., at the South Pole or at an altitude of 5000 meters for the ALMA Observatory). These systems use commercial wideband samplers and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to enable a relatively low-power and low-cost design. The primary difference for the BHEX system is the requirements for space-grade components, which are also commercially available. Another difference is that the BHEX DBE will use a 1-bit quantization scheme, giving a quantization efficiency of $\eta_{\mathrm{Q}} = 0.750$ on baselines from BHEX to ground sites with 2-bit quantization.

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design of the BHEX DBE, see Ref. [?].

Frequency Reference

VLBI relies on a stable frequency reference to allow coherent integration of the correlated signal between sites in order to find “fringes.” With a sufficiently stable reference, the integration time is limited by fluctuations in optical path length through the troposphere, with typical coherence times of $\sim10$ second at wavelengths of $\lambda\approx1.3$ mm for EHT sites. With sufficient signal-to-noise on short integrations, residual fluctuations can be corrected in post-processing (a procedure sometimes called “ad-hoc phase correction”).[15, ?]

With the use of multi-band observations, using a secondary band for phase corrections, BHEX can use an ultra stable oscillator (USO) based on a temperature-controlled quartz crystal. For example, an exceptionally quiet USO[?, ?] is currently serving as a reference for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.[?] We are also currently evaluating alternative choices of frequency reference that use the stabilization of a continuous wave (CW) laser to an optical atomic or molecular transition. By referencing the output of an optical frequency comb to stabilized CW laser, the coherent optical pulse train output from the comb serves as the clock output and a microwave reference frequency can be generated which preserves the fractional frequency instability of the CW laser. Some of these optical atomic clocks can be quite simple, with performance that exceeds that of an active hydrogen maser over the timescales of interest.[?]

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design of the BHEX DBE, see Refs. [?, ?].

Optical Data Transmission

Space optical communications has long been recognized as capable of supporting higher data rates with smaller apertures and lower powers than the incumbent radio-frequency communications methods widely used today. Over the past several decades, these capabilities have been demonstrated over a variety of orbits and mission use cases such as lunar missions for science,[?] geosynchronous relays,[?, ?, ?] and low-earth orbit and lunar missions supporting human exploration.[?, ?] One unique aspect of space optical communications addressed by all missions is the sensitivity of optical frequencies to atmospheric scintillation and fading, requiring atmospheric mitigation techniques to provide error-free data delivery. To support high-fidelity downlink of data captured at up to 64 Gb/s, BHEX requires a 100 Gb/s optical downlink system.

Recently, the TeraByte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) mission, a small cubesat in low-earth orbit (LEO), demonstrated transmission up to 200 Gb/s from space to ground.[?, ?] We have already explored adaptations to TBIRD that would meet requirements that are more demanding than the present BHEX design; see Ref. [?]. Such a mission can be achieved with technologies which have already been demonstrated today.

For additional details on the space heritage, trade space, and design of the BHEX laser communications downlink design, see Ref. [?].

Concept of Operations

The BHEX science goals hinge on building sensitivity from high recording bandwidths and optimal atmospheric conditions at the ground VLBI stations co-observing with the satellite. Weather considerations also need to be taken into account when developing the downlink network receiving the signal from the satellite. The high bandwidth requirements for BHEX necessitate a downlink infrastructure with optical communications, which have demonstrated higher bandwidth rates than radio-frequency methods commonly used in past space-VLBI experiments. The operations concept for BHEX essentially involves a three-part hybrid observatory: satellite operations of the space-based component, coordinated operations of the ground-based VLBI network, and coordinated operations of the ground-based downlink terminals.

BHEX will operate for a nominal two-year mission in a circular, semi-synchronous, near-polar orbit ($\sim20{,}200$ km altitude), optimized for multi-directional sampling of the photon ring signal in M87*. Repeated observations are key to aggregate sufficient data to make images of the photon ring. This will provide the required baseline coverage and thus angular resolution of the primary targets, M87* and Sgr A*. Observations of sources will be conducted at the times of year when the angle between the antenna boresight and the Sun is greater than 90 degrees to minimise thermal distortion of the antenna surface due to solar radiation. This requirement, and the favourable times of year for ground station observations, results in observation campaigns of the two main sources during the following months: January - March for M87* and June - August for Sgr A*, respectively. Photon ring campaigns will be interspersed with survey science on demographics of black holes in low accretion states and relativistic jet studies of a range of sources.

Radio emission from distant black holes will be observed by the BHEX and telescopes on the ground simultaneously, including those that currently form the EHT. BHEX will leverage established (sub)millimeter observatories in the EHT to carry out its science goals. Large sensitive apertures (such as ALMA, the LMT, the MIT Haystack 37-m, the IRAM 30-m, and NOEMA telescopes, and the SMA) will provide detections to BHEX and anchor the satellite to the smaller ground dishes filling our coverage for imaging, see Figure 11 and Figure 12 for M87* and Sgr A*, respectively. Partnerships with these facilities are already established within the EHT collaboration, and a path for time allocation is being pursued for BHEX. The observed radio waves will be recorded at the ground-based telescopes and will be computationally combined with the observational data transmitted to the ground from BHEX to generate the highest resolution images of black holes. BHEX will perform real time downlink of data during observations utilising a network of optical ground terminals, distributed across the globe (see section 4.6). The semi-synchronous orbit selection is favourable for this mode of operation as it generates a constant ground track which, alongside a careful selection of ground terminal sites, ensures that a real time downlink can be maintained at all times.

We plan to utilize existing EHT correlation infrastructure, such as the correlator at MIT Haystack Observatory and the Cannon Cluster at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). The correlated data will then be processed using the EHT reference pipeline, and both raw, correlated data products and calibrated, processed data products will be released to a public archive.

Summary

The BHEX mission concept, summarized in Table 2, arises from a coincidence of transformational theoretical discoveries, an explosion of community interest in black holes, and technical breakthroughs that enable submillimeter space VLBI. BHEX will produce images that bring us to an edge of the universe, revealing whether spinning black holes are feeding energy back into the universe by powering relativistic jets of emission. And it will reveal a population of unseen black holes, showing how they grow over cosmic timescales.

Antenna
Diameter	3.5-m
Surface RMS	40 $\mu$m
Primary Receiver (SIS; 4.5 K)
Frequency Range	240-320 GHz
IF	4-12 GHz
Receiver noise temperature (DSB)	23-30 K
SEFD at 240 GHz	16,400 Jy
SEFD at 320 GHz	23,600 Jy
Secondary Receiver (HEMT; 20 K)
Frequency Range	80-106 GHz
IF	4-12 GHz
Receiver noise temperature (SSB)	45 K
SEFD at 80 GHz	14,700 Jy
Maximum Data Rate	64 Gb/s (both receivers; dual-pol; 1-bit quantization)
Baseline Sensitivity	(RMS Thermal Noise for 8 GHz Bandwidth)
BHEX-ALMA, 10-minute integration	1 mJy
BHEX-ALMA, 10-second integration	7 mJy
BHEX-LMT, 10-minute integration	2 mJy
BHEX-LMT, 10-second integration	15 mJy
Orbit	Semi-synchronous (12-hr; 20,200 km altitude)
	Circular
	$\ge78^\circ$ inclination
Finest Fringe Spacing ($\lambda/D$)
80 GHz	24 $\mu$as
240 GHz	8 $\mu$as
320 GHz	6 $\mu$as
Maximum Baseline Length	32,900 km
80 GHz	9 G$\lambda$
240 GHz	26 G$\lambda$
320 GHz	35 G$\lambda$
Mission Lifetime	2 yr

BHEX is enabled by pioneering work to develop successful space-VLBI missions at centimeter wavelengths and emerging space technologies such as laser communications. It leverages billions of dollars of existing ground infrastructure that has already been combined to deliver the remarkable successes of the EHT. With these advances, we are now at a moment when a critical new science goal—imaging a black hole’s photon ring—is within reach. Guided by this common vision, the BHEX team will submit a Small Explorers mission proposal in 2025 to launch BHEX within the next decade and turn this extraordinary opportunity into a reality.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Technical and concept studies for BHEX have been supported by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, by the Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, by the University of Arizona, and by the ULVAC-Hayashi Seed Fund from the MIT-Japan Program at MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI). We acknowledge financial support from the Brinson Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF-10423), the National Science Foundation (AST-2307887, AST-2307888, AST-2107681, AST-1935980, and AST-2034306), the Simons Foundation (MP-SCMPS-00001470), the European Research Council (the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, grant No 101018682), and the Israel Science Foundation (grant #2047/23). This project/publication is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant #8273.01). It was also made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (Grant #62286). The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of these Foundations. BHEX is funded in part by generous support from Mr. Michael Tuteur and Amy Tuteur, MD. BHEX is supported by initial funding from Fred Ehrsam. R., Gómez-Ruiz, A. I., Gómez, J. L., Gu, M., Gurwell, M., Hada, K., Haggard, D., Haworth, K., Hecht, M. H., Hesper, R., Heumann, D., Ho, L. C., Ho, P., Honma, M., Huang, C.-W. L., Huang, L., Hughes, D. H., Ikeda, S., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Inoue, M., Issaoun, S., James, D. J., Jannuzi, B. T., Janssen, M., Jeter, B., Jiang, W., Jiménez-Rosales, A., Johnson, M. D., Jorstad, S., Joshi, A. V., Jung, T., Karami, M., Karuppusamy, R., Kawashima, T., Keating, G. K., Kettenis, M., Kim, D.-J., Kim, J.-Y., Kim, J., Kim, J., Kino, M., Koay, J. Y., Kocherlakota, P., Kofuji, Y., Koch, P. M., Koyama, S., Kramer, C., Kramer, M., Krichbaum, T. P., Kuo, C.-Y., Bella, N. L., Lauer, T. R., Lee, D., Lee, S.-S., Leung, P. K., Levis, A., Li, Z., Lico, R., Lindahl, G., Lindqvist, M., Lisakov, M., Liu, J., Liu, K., Liuzzo, E., Lo, W.-P., Lobanov, A. P., Loinard, L., Lonsdale, C. J., Lu, R.-S., Mao, J., Marchili, N., Markoff, S., Marrone, D. P., Marscher, A. P., Martí-Vidal, I., Matsushita, S., Matthews, L. D., Medeiros, L., Menten, K. M., Michalik, D., Mizuno, I., Mizuno, Y., Moran, J. M., Moriyama, K., Moscibrodzka, M., Müller, C., Mus, A., Musoke, G., Myserlis, I., Nadolski, A., Nagai, H., Nagar, N. M., Nakamura, M., Narayan, R., Narayanan, G., Natarajan, I., Nathanail, A., Fuentes, S. N., Neilsen, J., Neri, R., Ni, C., Noutsos, A., Nowak, M. A., Oh, J., Okino, H., Olivares, H., Ortiz-León, G. N., Oyama, T., Özel, F., Palumbo, D. C. M., Paraschos, G. F., Park, J., Parsons, H., Patel, N., Pen, U.-L., Pesce, D. W., Piétu, V., Plambeck, R., PopStefanija, A., Porth, O., Pötzl, F. M., Prather, B., Preciado-López, J. A., Psaltis, D., Pu, H.-Y., Ramakrishnan, V., Rao, R., Rawlings, M. G., Raymond, A. W., Rezzolla, L., Ricarte, A., Ripperda, B., Roelofs, F., Rogers, A., Ros, E., Romero-Cañizales, C., Roshanineshat, A., Rottmann, H., Roy, A. L., Ruiz, I., Ruszczyk, C., Rygl, K. L. J., Sánchez, S., Sánchez-Argüelles, D., Sánchez-Portal, M., Sasada, M., Satapathy, K., Savolainen, T., Schloerb, F. P., Schonfeld, J., Schuster, K.-F., Shao, L., Shen, Z., Small, D., Sohn, B. W., SooHoo, J., Souccar, K., Sun, H., Tazaki, F., Tetarenko, A. J., Tiede, P., Tilanus, R. P. J., Titus, M., Torne, P., Traianou, E., Trent, T., Trippe, S., Turk, M., van Bemmel, I., van Langevelde, H. J., van Rossum, D. R., Vos, J., Wagner, J., Ward-Thompson, D., Wardle, J., Weintroub, J., Wex, N., Wharton, R., Wielgus, M., Wiik, K., Witzel, G., Wondrak, M. F., Wong, G. N., Wu, Q., Yamaguchi, P., Yoon, D., Young, A., Young, K., Younsi, Z., Yuan, F., Yuan, Y.-F., Zensus, J. A., Zhang, S., Zhao, G.-Y., and Zhao, S.-S., “First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. Testing the Black Hole Metric,” ApJ 930, L17 (may 2022).

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