Tamara Bogdanović

Professor

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Research

My research interests are in astrophysics of some of the most massive black holes in the universe, a.k.a., supermassive black holes. Within my group we investigate the physical processes that arise in accretion flows around supermassive black holes and use them as luminous tracers of these otherwise dark objects. Some of the scenarios we study include the accretion of gas by the single and binary supermassive black holes as well as the accretion of stars that happen to be disrupted by the black hole tides in galactic nuclei. My goal as a theorist is to predict the signatures of these interactions which can be searched for in observations, as well as to provide interpretation for some of the puzzling astrophysical events seen on the sky. In a nutshell, my research interest include:

• Black hole astrophysics
• Accretion physics
• Physics of the intracluster medium
• Computational astrophysics

Papers

Publication list via NASA Astrophysics Data System