GravitoMagnetohydrodynamics: Black Hole Accretion Manuela Campanelli is a distinguished professor of astrophysics of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
[2][3] Her work focuses on the astrophysics of merging black holes and neutron stars, which are powerful sources of gravitational waves, electromagnetic radiation and relativistic jets.
She was lead author on a paper that produced a breakthrough in gravitational wave astrophysics[7] in 2005; she also discovered that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their host galaxies at up to 4000 km/s.
[8] She then moved on to studying the behavior of matter around inspiraling black holes, both in the mini disks size,[9] growth[10] and potential electromagnetic emissions.
She moved then to the University of Utah and then to the Max Planck Institute in Germany, where she began to use supercomputer simulations to understand how black holes coalesce.