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Black Hole

Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

Credit: ALAIN RIAZUELO, IAP/UPMC/CNRS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE IMAGES.

Hengyue Zhang

Grad Student

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Galaxy formation and evolution
hengyue.zhang@physics.ox.ac.uk
Denys Wilkinson Building, room UC
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I grew up in Nanjing, China but spent my undergraduate years in California. I am keen on all aspects of observational astronomy and am working with Prof. Martin Bureau on measuring supermassive black hole masses with molecular gas dynamics. When not doing research, I watch football and compete in competitive Pokemon tournaments.

Research interests

Observational Astrophysics
Supermassive black holes
Giant molecular clouds
Galaxies
Exoplanets

Selected publications

WISDOM Project – XXII. A 5 per cent precision CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 383

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 537:1 (2025) 520-536
Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa, Michele Cappellari, Timothy A Davis, Pandora Dominiak, Jacob S Elford, Satoru Iguchi, Federico Lelli, Marc Sarzi, Thomas G Williams

WISDOM Project – XIX. Figures of merit for supermassive black hole mass measurements using molecular gas and/or megamaser kinematics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 530:3 (2024) 3240-3251
Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Mark D Smith, Michele Cappellari, Timothy A Davis, Pandora Dominiak, Jacob S Elford, Fu-Heng Liang, Ilaria Ruffa, Thomas G Williams

Dynamical masses and ages of Sirius-like systems

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 524:1 (2023) 695-715
Hengyue Zhang, Timothy D Brandt, Rocio Kiman, Alexander Venner, Qier An, Minghan Chen, Yiting Li

Cleaning Images with Gaussian Process Regression

The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 162:4 (2021) 139
Hengyue Zhang, Timothy D Brandt
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