Andy Young
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Dr Andy Young |
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Telephone Number
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+44 (0)117 928 8716
internal 88716
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Fax Number
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+44 (0)117 9255624
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| Email Address |
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| Personal Home Page |
Link to home page |
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Position
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Lecturer , Deputy Director of Physics Graduate School
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| Office Location |
4.15 |
Research
Black holes
Black holes have a profound impact on their environment. Gas falling towards a super-massive black hole can produce tremendous quantities of radiation (often outshining an entire galaxy), and can also produce very high velocity outflows such as relativistic jets. The feedback between inflowing gas and outflowing jets and radiation plays an important role in regulating structure (eg galaxy and galaxy cluster) formation and evolution. We study the environment immediately surrounding black holes using space-based X-ray observatories (including Chandra and Suzaku), in addition to observations at other wavelengths. X-ray spectroscopy of gas deep in the potential well of the black hole, where the effects of strong gravity are important, allows us to probe the properties of the black hole itself.
