Ramesh Narayan (astrophysicist)

Ramesh Narayan
Born1950
Mumbai
CitizenshipAmerican
Known forTheoretical Astrophysics: accretion processes on black holes
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard University
Thesis (1979)

Ramesh Narayan (born in Mumbai, India, in 1950) is an Indian-American theoretical astrophysicist, currently the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University. Full member of the National Academy of Sciences,[1] Ramesh Narayan is widely known for his contributions on the theory of black hole accretion processes. He is involved in the Event Horizon Telescope project,[2] which led in 2019 to the first image of the event horizon of a black hole.[3][4][5]

black hole event horizon EHT
The first image of the event horizon of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration.
  1. ^ "Ramesh Narayan". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  2. ^ "Ramesh Narayan". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  3. ^ "CfA Plays Central Role In Capturing Landmark Black Hole Image". www.cfa.harvard.edu/. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  4. ^ "First-ever picture of a black hole unveiled". Science. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  5. ^ "Focus on the First Event Horizon Telescope Results - The Astrophysical Journal Letters - IOPscience". iopscience.iop.org. Retrieved 2020-08-21.