Kavli Affiliate: Qingjuan Yu
| Summary:
We examine the possibility for the existence of gravitomagnetic monopole ($n_*$) in M87* by using the results obtained from its first Event Horizon Telescope image. By numerically deducing the shadow sizes in Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) spacetime, we show that the shadow size increases with increasing $|n_*|$ for a fixed Kerr parameter $|a_*|$ in case of the KTN black hole, whereas for a KTN naked singularity it increases with increasing $n_*$ for a fixed $a_* > 0$ if $n_* > -cot 17^circ$ . In general, the asymmetry of shadow shape increases if the central dark object in M87 is a KTN/Kerr naked singularity instead of a KTN/Kerr black hole. We find that a non-zero gravitomagnetic monopole is still compatible with the current EHT observations, in which case the upper limit of $n_*$ cannot be greater than $1.1$, i.e., $n_* lesssim 1.1$ for the prograde rotation ($a_* > 0$), and the lower limit of $n_*$ cannot be less than $-1.1$, i.e., $ n_* gtrsim -1.1$ for the retrograde rotation ($a_* < 0$). Moreover, if the circularity of the shadow can be measured on a precision of $lesssim 1%$, the Kerr and KTN naked singularities can be falsified for M87*.
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