To Probe a Black Hole
Andrei Gruzinov
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Princeton, NJ 08540
Paper: ApJL, to be submitted
Abstract:
We show how an idealized high-frequency VLBI can probe the metric of nearby
supermassive black holes. No quantitative assumptions about plasma dynamics are
used in the suggested diagnostic, which is based on strong-field lensing.
Preprints available from the authors at andrei@ias.edu
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