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M87的事件视界

The Event Horizon of M87

Avery E. Broderick, Ramesh Narayan, John Kormendy, Eric S. Perlman, Marcia J. Rieke, Sheperd S. Doeleman

摘要:

在巨大的椭圆星系M87的中心有一个60亿太阳质量的超大质量黑洞,它为一个相对论性喷流提供动力。用事件视界望远镜在毫米波长上进行的观测,已经将这种喷流底部的辐射定位到了与假定的黑洞视界相当的角尺度上。喷流可能直接由一个吸积盘提供动力,或者由电磁抽取黑洞的旋转能量提供动力。然而,即使是后一种机制也需要一个封闭的厚吸积盘来维持黑洞附近所需的磁通量。因此,无论喷流机制如何,观测到的M87喷流功率都意味着存在一个最小质量吸积率。如果M87的中心致密天体不是一个黑洞,而是有一个表面,这种吸积将导致表面大量的热近红外和光学辐射。M87核上的电流通量限制强烈地限制了任何这样的表面发射。这排除了表面的存在,从而为事件视界提供了间接证据。

英文摘要:

The 6 billion solar mass supermassive black hole at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 powers a relativistic jet. Observations at millimeter wavelengths with the Event Horizon Telescope have localized the emission from the base of this jet to angular scales comparable to the putative black hole horizon. The jet might be powered directly by an accretion disk or by electromagnetic extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole. However, even the latter mechanism requires a confining thick accretion disk to maintain the required magnetic flux near the black hole. Therefore, regardless of the jet mechanism, the observed jet power in M87 implies a certain minimum mass accretion rate. If the central compact object in M87 were not a black hole but had a surface, this accretion would result in considerable thermal near-infrared and optical emission from the surface. Current flux limits on the nucleus of M87 strongly constrain any such surface emission. This rules out the presence of a surface and thereby provides indirect evidence for an event horizon.

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