Publications

The science and engineering behind BHEX is a rapidly growing literature and community

BHEX has been highlighted in over 100 papers in the past 2 years alone!
(You can see a full list of papers on BHEX here)

The BHEX mission is described in a series of papers for the 2024 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation meeting:

1. The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision

2. The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview

3. The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design

4. The Black Hole Explorer Cryocooling Instrument

5. Receivers for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission

6. Ultra-Low Noise Laser and Optical Frequency Comb-Based Timing System for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission

7. The Black Hole Explorer: Back End Electronics

8. High Data Rate Laser Communications for the Black Hole Explorer

9. The Black Hole Explorer: Operating a Hybrid Observatory

10. The Black Hole Explorer: astrophysics mission concept engineering study report

11. The Japanese Vision for the Black Hole Explorer Mission

12. Black Hole Spacetime and Properties of Accretion Flows and Jets Probed by Black Hole Explorer: Science Cases Proposed by BHEX Japan Team

13. The Black Hole Explorer: Photon Ring Science, Detection and Shape Measurement

14. The Black Hole Explorer: Using the Photon Ring to Visualize Spacetime Around the Black Hole