Richard Anantua joined the faculty of UTSA’s College of Sciences in January.
Richard Anantua is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. The astrophysicist joined the UTSA faculty in January 2022.Black holes are celestial bodies that suck everything around them into their depths like some sort of cosmic whirlpool.
in diameter. Still, so little is known about black holes that scientists aren’t even sure what their immediate environments contain.UTSA astronomer receives Webb telescope data to study galaxies, black holes Some of Anantua’s findings were published along with the image of Sgr A* itself in May, half a decade after the initial data had been collected and five months after Anantua was hired by UTSA in January.
“If we just look at astronomy and physics from a historical perspective, it’s been a very heavily European male-dominated enterprise for 150 years, if not longer, despite the fact that there were actually strong contributions to astronomy from other cultures over the last several thousand years all over the world,” said David Silva, dean of the UTSA College of Sciences and an astronomer himself.
“The financial aid made it possible to take advantage of opportunities. I’m quite grateful for that fact,” he said. “There are very few instances where you could really come from a relatively impoverished background and then be regularly in the presence and live in the same environment as some of the world’s experts or world-class scholars and great educators for four years.”
“Fundamentally understanding the properties of supermassive black holes provides a new window into the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time, which means over the last 10, 11 or 12 billion years,” Silva said.
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