Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton (AAAP) Monthly Meeting

Accreting black holes power the most luminous objects in the Universe, including active galactic nuclei, quasars, and gamma ray bursts. Recent advances in computational methods allow calculations of the structure and dynamics of such flows from first principles. Moreover, observations from the Event Horizon Telescope and JWST are providing new insights into black hole accretion in a wide range of environments, and on scales down to the event horizon. Prof. Stone will summarize some of the recent progress that has been made in trying to understand the remarkable plasma dynamics of accreting black holes.