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26 April 2026 I have not had the chance to post individual news blurbs for these, but I have been involved in several papers that have come out over the past few months.

4 December 2025 Mergers of gas-rich galaxies result in rapid formation of new stars and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

22 September 2025 Galaxies undergo many processes over the lifetime of the Universe, but one of the more striking events can be the “quenching”, or halting of star formation.

19 July 2025 A few papers I am involved with have recently been accepted for publication: ALMA polarimetry of radio-quiet AGNs (Shablovinskaia+) Shockingly Effective: Cluster Winds as Engines of Feedback in Starburst Galaxy VV 114 (Kader+) High-Resolution…

4 June 2025 Understanding the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an important aspect of understanding how the galaxies they live in grow and change over the lifetime of the Universe.

26 April 2025 A major, persistent question about galaxies, particularly infrared-bright galaxies, is: does star formation or supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth dominate the luminosity?

22 April 2025 Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (CT AGN) are growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are obscured by a significant amount of gas and dust that blocks optical and ultraviolet light, as well as low-energy X-rays.

20 April 2025 I have just released v0.3.0 of proposal_database, a personal tool to track observing and funding proposals.

25 March 2025 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are astrophysically interesting (small) dust grains that emit a significant amount of energy in the near and mid-infrared.

13 December 2024 Star formation has long been known to be associated with molecular gas, with higher (surface) densities of molecular gas generally correlating with higher (surface) densities of star formation.