Patrick Hall

professor and researcher in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Patrick Hall

professor and researcher in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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I am an associate professor in the Physics & Astronomy Department at York University in Toronto, Canada.

I study the luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) known as quasars, which are created when gas spiralling into supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies heats up and gives off enough light to outshine the rest of the galaxy.

By modelling winds launched by quasars, I aim to understand exactly how quasars power their tremendous outpourings of radiative and kinetic energy.