No, not the West Side Story musical kind… (although they are awesome) The Jets gang from West Side Story. So our research group is called Jetset. We work on trying to figure out the physical processes that launch jets of matter and light from (very close to) black holes. So what are these jets actually? […]
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Our research group is composed almost entirely of theorists. They create models and simulations, based on physics, to try to figure out how black holes work. I’m an observational astronomer, I gather data from telescopes and try to figure out how black holes (and neutron stars) work. The thing that we’re all trying to figure
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Last week’s blog post was entitled To be MAD or not to be MAD. In it, my colleague Doosoo Yoon did a good job of discussing two models used to describe the accretion disks of matter flowing onto a black hole. These models started a discussion in our research group meeting this week for a
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