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Trying to Solve a Key Black Hole Mystery: Simulating Magnetic Flows Around Black Holes

Artist render of a black hole surrounded by a highly magnetized thin disk.

JILA Undergraduate Research Assistant Aaron Barrios is Awarded a 2024 Jacob Van Ek Scholarship

Undergraduate research assistant Aaron Barrios has been awarded a Jacob Van Ek Scholarship for 2024 for his work with JILA Fellow Jason Dexter on black holes.

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Questions about Quasars: How to Best Weigh a Celestial Body

A comparison of two theoretical models, the cloud and the disk wind model

JILA Graduate Students Tyler McMaken and Lia Hankla Awarded the 2022 Richard Nelson Thomas Award

Tyler McMaken (left) and Lia Hankla (right) were awarded the 2022 Richard Thomas Nelson award

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The Mystery of Black Hole Flares

Dexter

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I lead an astrophysics research group at CU Boulder, JILA, and MPE Garching studying the observational properties of gas falling onto black holes (accretion flows) and their use as probes of strong gravity.

Focus: Black hole accretion, radiative transfer, interferometry

Role: Theorist

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