Fan Zou

Fan Zou

Graduate Student in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State

I will be a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Astronomy at University of Michigan starting in August 2024. Prior to that, I received my Ph.D. at The Pennsylvania State University (advisor: Niel Brandt) in 2024 and my B.S. at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. Broadly speaking, I am interested in massive black holes and galaxies. My research strongly focuses on multi-wavelength data covering from X-ray to radio.

Articles by: Fan Zou

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole.

Black hole growth is slowing down in the universe. New research could help explain why.

By Fan Zou, W. Niel Brandt published

Black hole growth is slowing down, suggests a team of astrophysicists who looked back in time across the universe's 13.8 billion-year history.