On April 17, TIME Magazine published the list of 100 most influential people in 2024 which featured a number of Indian artists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Among them was astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan.
Endorsed by the Director of the Event Horizon Telescope and her contemporary, Sheperd (Shep) S. Doeleman, the article highlights her most significant contribution — “In November, a novel approach developed years ago by Priyamvada Natarajan brought us closer to understanding a basic mystery in astronomy: How do the supermassive black holes form? She had speculated that they might have gotten a jump start in the very early universe if clouds of gas collapsed to form massive black-hole ‘seeds’ that then grew within their host galaxies over billions of years.”
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