Black Holes & Strong Gravity

Extracting physical insight from observational and simulation data to study black holes, extreme plasma physics, and strong-gravity environments. We develop computational methods for Very Large Baseline Interferomery (VLBI) imaging of event horizons, polarization-based inference of galactic flares, and machine-learning models that learn plasma dynamics from complex simulations.

Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields

Nature 2026 Foschi, Zhao et al.

NeuralDMD: Interpretable Neural Representation of Dynamics from Sparse and Noisy Measurements

ECCV 2026 SaraerToosi, Tu et al.

BHCast: Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry Image with Long-Term Forecasting

CVPR 2026 Tu et al.

Dynamic Black-hole Emission Tomography with Physics-informed Neural Fields

CVPR 2026 Feng et al.

Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 Moran et al.

Orbital Polarimetric Tomography of a Flare Near the Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole

Nature Astronomy 2024 Levis et al.

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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results (I–VI)

The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2022 Collaboration

Gravitationally Lensed Black Hole Emission Tomography

CVPR 2022 Levis et al.

Inference of Black Hole Fluid-Dynamics from Sparse Interferometric Measurements

Proc. IEEE/CVF ICCV 2021 Levis et al.

Date	Title	First Authors	Venue
Aug 2026	Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields Marianna Foschi, Brandon Zhao, Antonio Fuentes, Katherine L. Bouman, José L. Gómez, Aviad Levis	Foschi, Zhao et al.	Nature
Sep 2026	NeuralDMD: Interpretable Neural Representation of Dynamics from Sparse and Noisy Measurements Ali SaraerToosi, Renbo Tu, Esther Y.H. Lin, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aviad Levis	SaraerToosi, Tu et al.	ECCV
Jun 2026	BHCast: Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry Image with Long-Term Forecasting Renbo Tu, Ali SaraerToosi, Nicholas S. Conroy, Gennady Pekhimenko, Aviad Levis	Tu et al.	CVPR
Jun 2026	Dynamic Black-hole Emission Tomography with Physics-informed Neural Fields Berthy T. Feng, Andrew A. Chael, David Bromley, Aviad Levis, William T. Freeman, Katherine L. Bouman	Feng et al.	CVPR
Jan 2025	Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations Abigail Moran, Lorenzo Sironi, Aviad Levis, Bart Ripperda, Elias R. Most, Sebastiaan Selvi	Moran et al.	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Jun 2024	Orbital Polarimetric Tomography of a Flare Near the Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole Aviad Levis, Andrew A. Chael, Katherine L. Bouman, Maciek Wielgus, Pratul P. Srinivasan	Levis et al.	Nature Astronomy
May 2022	First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results (I–VI) Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration	Collaboration	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Mar 2022	Gravitationally Lensed Black Hole Emission Tomography Aviad Levis, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Andrew A. Chael, Ren Ng, Katherine L. Bouman	Levis et al.	CVPR
Oct 2021	Inference of Black Hole Fluid-Dynamics from Sparse Interferometric Measurements Aviad Levis, Daeyoung Lee, Joel A. Tropp, Charles F. Gammie, Katherine L. Bouman	Levis et al.	Proc. IEEE/CVF ICCV