Iranian Journal of Physics Research

Review of testing black hole candidates with electromagnetic radiation

Document Type : Review Article

Author

Masoumeh Ghasemi Nodehi

School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, 19395-5531 Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.47176/ijpr.23.2.11635
Abstract
Astrophysical black holes are thought to be Kerr solution of general relativity but there is not yet observational evidence to prove them. One can study the emission of electromagnetic waves around them to test their geometry of space time. In this review article, we consider the deviation from Kerr solution to test the strong gravity regime of General Relativity. We introduce and employ black hole shadow, X-ray reflection spectroscopy, iron line reverberation mapping, quasi-periodic oscillations, and continuum-fitting method to solve the degeneracy problem.

Keywords

general relativity
testing general relativity
astrophysical black holes
electromagnetic radiation
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