• Publication and Press Coverage: Rapidly Spinning Black Holes Launch Precessing Jets

    Throughout this past year, I have been working in Sera’s group, alongside Matthew Liska (PhD of Michiel van der Klis), on analyzing the largest black-hole (BH) accretion simulations ever performed. In collaboration with Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern University) and Adam Ingram, we studied tilted accretion of magnetized matter onto a rapidly spinning BH, and the resulting relativistic jets. For the first time, we have demonstrated in simulations that relativistic jets precess along with the tilted accretion disk around the BH spin. This month, our first article on the results was accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. We have worked on a press release, which was published yesterday by NOVA (network group…

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  • New paper made HEA picture of the week!

    Our new Nature Astronomy paper PR image made the High-Energy Astrophysics Picture of the week at NASA!! Click on the image to go the POW on the NASA site, where you can also link to the press release with more information about the article.

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