We find that the precession of the binary's orbit can introduce a dominant modulation in the amount of gas the black holes accrete and in the corresponding high-energy electromagnetic lightcurves.

New preprint alert! 🚨https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07897

We posted a new paper on the arXiv on gas simulations of accreting binary black holes. We find that if their orbits arent perfectly circular, the electromagnetic emission gives a way to measure this deviation! Research led by Stan DeLaurentiis🔭🧪

Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics! 🚨

Razor sharp images in reach when we put radio telescope in space! 🛰 ✨ The Event Horizon Imager concept will be able to make movies and images so sharp that we observe the direct surroundings of black holes with exquisite precision.

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Pretty sure im at the cutest watch party.

A newly minted NASA Hubble Fellow gave the astrophysics colloquium at NASA Goddard!

I am so incredibly proud to share that NASA awarded me their prestigious Hubble Fellowship! After summer I will move office to Princeton University where I will continue to work on accreting black hole binaries!

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Always wanted to generate a black hole image just like the new awesome Event Horizon Telescope image of our galactic centers black hole? RAPTOR could be the code for you! We used RAPTOR to make more than a million realizations of SgrA

Check out the code here: github.com/jordydavelaa...

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We find strong coherent magnetic fields on the event horizon. Which is somewhat puzzling, M87 is very similar however this allows M87 to launch a strongly relativistic jet, a stream of highly energetic particles and magnetic fields, but we dont see this at larger scale for our own black hole!

Booting up a high-resolution GPU-accelerated black hole accretion simulation. And I just can't keep my eyes off all the tiny details and substructures it has... 😱and this is _just_ the initial stage...🔭🧪

Geeking out at the Kennedy Space Center. Seeing to holy grounds of space exploration, that ignited my curiosity in space research when I was a little boy. So incredibly awesome! Dream big folks 🌙 🧪🔭

Waves like this are seen in my systems, such as the cloud formations on Earth or other planets or in the Sun. Additionally, they can also form in other black hole systems! In the attached figure there is an accretion disk (orange)surrounding a black hole and a fast-moving outflow (dark green) 🧪🔭

Kelvin-Helmholtz waves seen in the clouds during a sunset in Death Valley! 🏜️ 🧪 🔭

I am a Marathoner. 🔥

I am running for charity! 🍀🙏 radboudoncologiefonds.voorradboudfonds.nl/fundraisers/...

Six days till the big day: the Death Valley Marathon. 3 years ago, my life was in the hands of doctors, now I am up for the second biggest challenge in my life. Will you help me reach my goals?

Rubin Observatory keeps amazing me. 17 BILLION stars and 20 BILLION galaxies. 🌌 🤯 a whopping 20 TB of data *each night*!

Talk by Jeno Sokoloski the director of the LSST Discovery Alliance

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We published some new cool black hole results! The Event Horizon Telescope measured the black hole in Messier 87 again in 2018 to confirm our observations from the previous year! The ring has a remarkably similar size to our 2017 data, giving us additional confidence that it is a black hole. 🔭🧪

T - 3 weeks till Marathon day. Today was the big 2 0. So proud. 😭

Hi Folks! Am I too late to the part?? My name is Jordy, and I am astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics! I study accreting black holes, in the context of the event horizon telescope (single black holes), or LISA (black hole binaries).