Research summary
Black holes are powerful cosmic engines that consume large amounts of material and expel matter in the form of jets. Stellar-mass black holes in our galaxy provide accessible laboratories that offer a real-time view of black holes and their dynamic environments. As Canada Research Chair in Black Hole Astrophysics, Dr. Alexandra Tetarenko is developing creative ways to study the jets launched from these stellar-mass black holes and to extract vital new information about black hole physics.
She and her research team are using stellar-mass black holes as unique laboratories to understand the complex relationship between the mass plunging into a black hole and the material jettisoned away. By designing techniques to gather new types of data and building computational tools to analyze these data, Tetarenko and her team are generating vital information about black hole physics.