Autocorrelation in black hole flare movies: Departures from Kerr

arXiv:2610.12199 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Event Horizon Telescope — 10× in this paper
• Gravitational Lensing — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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