Meet the People at the BHI
Ben Prather
Fellow
Black Hole Initiative
Physics
Biography
Ben Prather received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. After a Metropolis Fellowship at Los Alamos National Labaratory, Ben
joined the BHI as a Fellow. His research focuses on state of the art global simulations of black hole accretion systems, with an emphasis on understanding the
communication between large and small scales in low-luminosity AGN, including Event Horizon Telescope sources.
Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking
In Memoriam
Former Honorary Affiliate
Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics
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