2025 McDonnell Distinguished Lectures: Colloquium with Priyamvada Natarajan

Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor in the departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. She is noted for her work probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy, using gravitational lensing, and for developing models that describe the assembly and growth histories of black holes in the universe. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos (2016).

 

Header image: An artist's impression of matter flowing into a black hole. The matter will naturally form a disk (the accretion disk) and, sometimes, a powerful jet will form along the rotation axis. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech