COMPUTATIONAL & THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS
Stefano Torniamenti
I am an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. I study how black holes form and grow and what they reveal about the environment where they originate.
Research areas
01
Star cluster dynamics
Formation, internal dynamics, and long-term evolution of stellar systems.
Explore → 02Black holes & gravitational waves
Black hole binaries, hierarchical mergers, and their observational signatures.
Explore → 03Intermediate-mass black holes
Formation pathways and the possible origins of massive black hole seeds.
Explore → 04Galactic nuclei
Cluster migration, nuclear star cluster assembly, and black hole growth.
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