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Nick Kaaz

Kaaz, Nicholas

Graduate Student

  1800 Sherman, 8027

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Nick Kaaz is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. They are originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and did their undergraduate in UC Santa Cruz. They are broadly interested in accretion processes in a variety of systems, with their main focus being warped and torn accretion disks around rapidly rotating black holes. They use a combination of analytic and numerical methods in their research.

Advisor: Sasha Tchekhovskoy

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Simulated image of an accretion disk, the violent whirlpool of gas that encircles a supermassive black hole, broken apart into inner and outer rings. According to new high-resolution 3D simulations, spinning black holes twist up the surrounding space-time, ultimately ripping apart the violent whirlpool of gas (or accretion disk) that encircles and feeds them. This

A. Tchekhovskoy/Nick Kaaz/Northwestern University

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Simulated image of an accretion disk, the violent whirlpool of gas that encircles a supermassive black hole, broken apart into inner and outer rings. According to new high-resolution 3D simulations, spinning black holes twist up the surrounding space-time, ultimately ripping apart the violent whirlpool of gas (or accretion disk) that encircles and feeds them. This

A. Tchekhovskoy/Nick Kaaz/Northwestern University

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Image

Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Simulated image of an accretion disk, the violent whirlpool of gas that encircles a supermassive black hole, broken apart into inner and outer rings. According to new high-resolution 3D simulations, spinning black holes twist up the surrounding space-time, ultimately ripping apart the violent whirlpool of gas (or accretion disk) that encircles and feeds them. This

A. Tchekhovskoy/Nick Kaaz/Northwestern University

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Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Image

Black holes eat faster than previously expected

Simulated image of an accretion disk, the violent whirlpool of gas that encircles a supermassive black hole, broken apart into inner and outer rings. According to new high-resolution 3D simulations, spinning black holes twist up the surrounding space-time, ultimately ripping apart the violent whirlpool of gas (or accretion disk) that encircles and feeds them. This

A. Tchekhovskoy/Nick Kaaz/Northwestern University

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Dying stars’ cocoons could be new source of gravitational waves

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Dying stars’ cocoons could be new source of gravitational waves

When massive stars collapse into black holes, they may create powerful outflows (or jets) of particles traveling close to the speed of light. New simulations model this process — from the time the star collapses into a black hole until the jet escapes. For the first time, the simulations show that the cocoon of stellar

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