Ramesh Narayan

Ramesh Narayan (born in Mumbai, India, in 1950) is an Indian-American theoretical astrophysicist, currently the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University. Full member of the National Academy of Sciences, Ramesh Narayan is widely known for his contributions on the theory of black hole accretion processes. He is involved in the Event Horizon Telescope project, which led in 2019 to the first image of the event horizon of a black hole. The first image of the event horizon of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration.

Education and career path Ramesh Narayan received a B.Sc. in physics from Madras University and a Ph.D. from Bangalore University in 1979. He served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2014.

Fellowships Ramesh Narayan is currently a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, accretion disks, black holes, gravitational lensing and neutron stars. He is well known for his works on numerical simulations on accretion flows around supermassive black holes and the possibility of forming jets, via the Blandford–Znajek process. He significantly improved GRRMHD codes to perform numerical simulations, which handle General Relativistic (GR), Radiative (R), and MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) physics.