Dr. Cara Battersby – The Galactic Wild West
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Tonight we saddle up to explore the extreme center of our Milky Way Galaxy – a chaotic region containing dense gas, stars, and a supermassive black hole. From the gas flows that fuel the Galactic Center, to the strange star formation it hosts, we explore physics in this Galactic Wild West. Using both numerical simulations and multi-wavelength datasets, I outline some of what we know, some of what we don’t, and the questions that drive us forward.
Dr. Cara Battersby is an associate professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, specializing in observational astrophysics. Prof. Battersby studies how stars are born in our Galaxy’s Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) by combining large observational surveys and numerical simulations.
Prof. Battersby has authored over 70 publications and given over 50 invited research presentations. Read more about her research, team, and accolades.
In 2017, Prof. Battersby founded the Milky Way Laboratory, a research group at the University of Connecticut that specializes in using our home Galaxy as a laboratory for understanding star formation throughout the cosmos.
