Growth of black holes in stellar clusters
BHGrowth is a POLONEZ BIS project that focuses on investigating the different pathways by which black holes can grow inside dense star clusters using state-of-the-art computer simulations. This project is being carried out at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
This research is part of the project No. 2021/43/P/ST9/03167 co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 945339
Goals
The goal of this project is to understand the complex ways black holes can grow in stellar clusters and shed light on the origin of massive black holes in our Universe. This knowledge will equip us to comprehend some of the most energetic events in the Universe and to make predictions for current and future gravitational wave observatories.
CfA / M. Weiss
Meet scientists
The principal investigator of this project is Dr. Abbas Askar. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland where he works Prof. Mirek Giersz and the MOCCA code development team. Broadly, his research is centered on black holes, formation of compact object binaries, gravitational wave sources, and the dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems like globular clusters and nuclear stellar clusters.
Personal Webpage: abbasaskar.com
Link to CV: abbasaskar.com/Abbas_Askar_CV.pdf
Email: askar@camk.edu.pl
Abbas Askar
Principal Investigator, PhD at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
Mirosław Giersz
Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center