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A New Approach for Testing Einstein’s Theory of Gravity Close to Rapidly Spinning Black Holes

  • Authors: Shravan Vengalil Menon, Kun Hu, Henric Krawczynski

Shravan Vengalil Menon et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Spectral energy distribution (SED, E2dN/dE, with N and E being the number and energy of the photons, respectively) for a simulated black hole in the soft state with a spin parameter a = 0.998, along with its polarization degree (PD, middle panel) and polarization angle (PA, bottom panel) for the total signal. The blue line shows the results for a geometrically thin optically thick, highly ionized (100% reflectivity) accretion disk seen at an inclination of 33﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x000b0}}﹩6. The red dotted curve shows the results when the reflection is switched off in the simulations. Neither model has a corona.

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