Feryal Ozel
Professor of Astronomy and Physics
About Me
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy at University of Arizona. Read More…
Event Horizon Telescope
I am a study author and collaborator with the EHT. To learn more about the project click below.
Neutron Stars and their Interiors
Our group pioneered the radius measurements of neutron stars with modern X-ray instruments and a careful assessment of the statistical and systematic uncertainties in such measurements.
Large Scale Simulations
My research group specializes in the development and application of algorithms needed to study the horizons and accretion flows of black holes.
Latest News
$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Black Hole Hunters Including UA Astrophysicists
Dimitrios Pslatis, EHT project scientist, and Feryal Ozel, lead of the modeling analysis working group, are two of several University of Arizona researchers who contributed to the Event Horizon Telescope project, which was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental...
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
WINNERS OF THE 2020 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCED September 5, 2019 – (San Francisco) – The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors – Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri...
Public Lecture Series: Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope
Today, his predictions are being tested through work being done to take the first-ever images of nearby black holes using an earth-sized telescope array, the Event Horizon Telescope. The Event Horizon Telescope shared groundbreaking results from this effort involving...