Ok, so I’m still dreadfully behind on updating this page, but I wanted to mention our new paper that came out last week (30 August) in Science: Wang, Nowak, Markoff et al., “Dissecting X-ray–Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy”. Here’s the link if you have access otherwise it’s on astroph. The paper is […]
New paper in Science, with dumb quote! Read More »
The few months “minisabbatical” in Paris was amazing, and very productive. The downside was that I got pretty behind on updating this page, and I still have a lot of work to do there. But in the meantime, I want to announce the new group hires, that resulted from two recent searches.
New group members coming this Fall! And two are going off to new jobs… Read More »
We have just more or less finalized the program for our Lorentz Center meeting in January, which brings together the Working Group (WG) coordinators from our mega Sgr A* campaign to discuss the science output and strategy etc. Here’s the link to the meeting: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2013/561/info.php3?wsid=561&venue=Snellius and to our meeting poster, hot off the press!:
Lorentz Center Meeting on Sgr A* ready to go! Read More »
Our new paper is out in Nature this week (advanced online version), and the press releases are a’flying. We found what’s called an “ultraluminous X-ray source” (ULX) in a nearby galaxy, Andromeda (M31), and for the very first time actually caught its radio emission from the jets evolving over time! Until now there’s been
New paper out in Nature! Read More »
I’m really excited, it looks like I got funding to hire a new PhD student for next year, to work on all the great new Sgr A* data we have coming in, among other things!! We are experimenting with a different hiring system this year, advertising all our positions together and then doing a
Seeking an excellent PhD candidate! Read More »
A researcher from BBC Horizon called me the other day to talk about black holes and jets! They are thinking about doing a new show on this topic, in part because of the so-called G2 cloud that seems to be on a collision course with our Galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, Sgr A* (see http://www.mpe.mpg.de/resources/pgn/g2/index.php).
Fun interview with BBC Horizon! Read More »
I (and members of my group) spend a lot of time thinking about the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A* (see recent group blog post, for instance). The new hard X-ray imaging mission NuSTAR has just released a really cool series of images showing a hard X-ray flare from
Sgr A* flare seen with NuSTAR!! Read More »
Just found out this week that the Lorentz Center proposal I submitted for a small workshop to bring the Sgr A* XVP collaboration (see post) together in January was accepted! So that’s good news. I have to admit to being a bit “proposal’d out”, had four deadlines in four weeks basically, the one I just mentioned,
Lorentz Center meeting approved! And other proposals… Read More »
We were very happy to hear today that one of the students on the astronomy blog “astrobites” has ranked Salomé’s and Samia’s poster in the top 5 from the enormous meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Beijing! This poster reports our results on new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the accretion flow
Our poster takes top 5 at IAU! Read More »
This is the first entry of what I hope will be an active blog of my group’s research. I’m very proud of my students. Here you’ll find entries from the best and brightest about their current research!
This website is the news Read More »
