Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Black holes, formation of the Moon, planet formation, star formation, cosmic ray transport, and interstellar turbulence.
Awards and Honors
Additional Campus Affiliations
Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, Astronomy
University Scholar, Astronomy
Professor, Physics
Professor, Astronomy
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair, Physics
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Recent Publications
Gómez, J. L., Cho, I., Traianou, E., Krichbaum, T. P., Zhao, G. Y., Lico, R., Fuentes, A., Foschi, M., Dahale, R., Georgiev, B., Moriyama, K., Wielgus, M., Gold, R., Pesce, D. W., Müller, H., Jorstad, S., Toscano, T., Röder, J., Martí, J. M., ... Zhao, S. S. (2026). Spatially resolved polarization swings in the supermassive binary black hole candidate OJ 287 with first Event Horizon Telescope observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 705, Article A23. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555831
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2026). Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 706, Article A27. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202557022
Akiyama, K., Albentosa-Ruíz, E., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Algaba, J. C., Anantua, R., Asada, K., Azulay, R., Bach, U., Baczko, A. K., Ball, D., Baloković, M., Bandyopadhyay, B., Barrett, J., Bauböck, M., Benson, B. A., Bintley, D., Blackburn, L., Blundell, R., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87: II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, Article A265. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451296
Dahale, R., Cho, I., Moriyama, K., Wiik, K., Tiede, P., Gómez, J. L., Chan, C. K., Gold, R., Bernshteyn, V. Y., Foschi, M., Jeter, B., Pu, H. Y., Georgiev, B., Joshi, A. V., Cruz-Osorio, A., Natarajan, I., Broderick, A. E., Salas, L. D. S., Chatterjee, K., ... Zhao, S. S. (2025). Origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, Article A279. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555235
Dhruv, V., Prather, B., Wong, G. N., & Gammie, C. F. (2025). A Survey of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Models for Black Hole Accretion Systems. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 277(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/adaea6