Project on an AI-surrogate digital twin of the lunar radiation environment selected for SPReAD

Selected in the second call of MEXT's AI for Science Pioneering Research Creation Project (SPReAD).

New member: Chikako Ichikawa joins as Administrative Assistant

Chikako Ichikawa has joined the lab as our administrative assistant.

JST FOREST project on black hole physics probed by magnetic fields near the event horizon has started

The research period of our JST FOREST project has begun.

Paper on neutrino production sites in blazar jets (Xue et al.) accepted by ApJ

Our study locating where high-energy neutrinos are produced in blazar jets has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

Press release: Particle acceleration by shocks around supermassive black holes

Shibaura Institute of Technology issued a press release on our simulation study revealing efficient proton acceleration by shocks in black hole coronae, a new clue to the origin of high-energy neutrinos (Ly et al.).

Press release: Signatures of Lense-Thirring precession around a black hole

Shibaura Institute of Technology issued a press release on our XRISM and NuSTAR study capturing signs of general-relativistic precession of the inner accretion disk (Kawamuro et al.).

Lab website launched

The website of the Inoue High-Energy Astrophysics Lab is now online.

New research grant awarded

Awarded a JSPS Kakenhi Challenging Research (Exploratory) grant.

Paper on XRISM time-resolved Fe K-alpha spectroscopy of NGC 4395 accepted by ApJ (Kawamuro et al.)

Probing the variable inner disk of an AGN with XRISM, with signatures of Lense-Thirring precession.

Paper led by PhD student Nobuyuki Sakai accepted by ApJ

Revisiting AGN disk winds as an origin of the cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds.

New preprint on neutrino production sites in blazar jets (Xue et al.)

Locating where high-energy neutrinos are produced in blazar jets.

Our collaborative Antennae galaxies study featured on phys.org (Komugi et al.)

The hidden supermassive black hole candidate study was covered by international media.

Paper reporting a hidden supermassive black hole candidate in the Antennae galaxies accepted by ApJ (Komugi et al.)

ALMA observations reveal a candidate obscured AGN near the core of NGC 4039.

Selected for the JST FOREST program

Our research has been selected for the JST FOREST (Fusion Oriented Research for disruptive Science and Technology) program.

New research grant awarded

Awarded a JSPS Kakenhi Publicly Offered Research grant.

Joined the College of Systems Engineering and Science at Shibaura Institute of Technology