Can the EHT M87 results be used to test general relativity?
  No. All theoretical predictions for the observational appearance of an
accreting supermassive black hole, as measured interferometrically by a sparse
Earth-sized array at current observation frequencies, are sensitive to many
untested assumptions about accretion flow and emission physics. There is no way
to distinguish a violation of general relativity (GR) from the much more likely
scenario that the relevant "gastrophysical" assumptions simply do not hold.
Tests of GR will become possible with longer interferometric baselines (likely
requiring a space mission) that reach the resolution where
astrophysics-independent predictions of the theory become observable.
