Ramesh Narayan | |
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Born | 1950 Mumbai |
Citizenship | American |
Known for | Theoretical Astrophysics: accretion processes on black holes |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Harvard 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]