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TinTin Nguyen

Center for Astrophysics
PhD Student
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TinTin Nguyen
tintin.nguyen@cfa.harvard.edu

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Tintin is broadly interested in astrophysical black holes of all sizes and scales over cosmic time, across the electromagnetic and gravitational wave spectra. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole Explorer collaboration. He previously worked on ray tracing around black holes, simulated images of Kerr naked singularities, statistical modeling of JWST high-redshift AGN hosting overmassive black holes, and tests of gravity with black hole photon rings. Currently, he's modeling Faraday rotation of the Galactic Center to improve horizon-scale polarimetric imaging of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope. He's also evaluating the future prospects in discovering intermediate-mass black hole binaries and providing early warning for multi-band/multi-messenger follow up with the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna. Beyond research, he's passionate about music, soccer, tennis, outdoor adventures, and scientific outreach as a lead organizer of Astronomy on Tap Boston.

M.A. Harvard University; B.Sc. University of Arizona

Telescopes and Instruments

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)

Black holes are found in the centers of most galaxies, where they can influence star formation and the distribution of atoms in the environment surrounding them. However, direct observation of a black hole is difficult because it is so small relative to their masses. Founded by Shep Doeleman at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) captured the first image ever taken of a black hole: specifically, the ring of light produced by matter just as it falls into the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87. The EHT is a virtual observatory consisting of telescopes spanning the planet, from Greenland to the South Pole. The international collaboration operating the EHT includes observatories affiliated with the Center for Astrophysics: the CfA’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Greenland Telescope.

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The Submillimeter Array - Maunakea, HI

Located near the summit of Maunakea on the Big Island of Hawaii, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) is one of the flagship observatories of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The observatory consists of eight radio dishes working together as one telescope, giving astronomers a window on a wide range of astronomical objects and phenomena: planets and comets in our own Solar System; the birth of stars and planets; and the supermassive black holes hidden at the centers of the Milky Way and other galaxies. The SMA is operated jointly by the CfA and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

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