Article ID: CBB675564388

Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment? (2021)

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This paper analyzes the experiment presented in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. The intended aim of the paper is to assess whether the EHT Collaboration has made an “inference to the best explanation” (IBE) to conclude that the data effectively confirm the hypothesis that the object at the center of M87 is in fact a supermassive Kerr rotating black hole. I demonstrate that the EHT Collaboration has applied an IBE. It is shown that the hypothesis that at the center of M87 there is a supermassive Kerr rotating black hole was already the best explanation at the time in which the 2017 EHT experiment was conducted. My analysis is intertwined with considerations on realist and empiricist interpretations of IBE, which are used to assess whether the conclusion that the object at the center of M87 is a Kerr rotating black hole implies holding a realist commitment with respect to such object.

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Authors & Contributors
Moll, Remington J.
Casini, Silvia
Montgomery, Robert A.
Kao, Philip
Vasey, Sebastien
Marcacci, Flavia
Concepts
Data analysis
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Philosophy of science
Experiments and experimentation
Inference
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Ancient
19th century
17th century
Places
Scotland
Greece
Institutions
University of Aberdeen
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