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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

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

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).  

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

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,

I am Co-PI of the longest ever campaign on the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*!  This program, called an “X-ray Visionary Project” for its legacy value, will probe the mechanisms driving high-energy processes around our nearest, and very weak, active galactic nucleus! The campaign is ongoing, so far in