John Kormendy

• Curriculum vitae: HTML
• First-author papers ordered by citations.
• All papers ordered by citations.
• Press releases
• Historical interviews

• Research results:
  • The search for supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei
    • Images of black hole galaxies
    • Bender et al. (2005, ApJ, 631, 280) on the supermassive black hole in the Andromeda Galaxy: Popular-level summary
    • Semi-popular-level talk for McDonald Obervatory Board of Visitors (2014 Feb. 22) in pdf format
    • Movie on the supermassive black hole in the Andromeda Galaxy (Slide 31 of the above talk, made by STScI for Bender et al. 2005)
  • Movies: Talks on supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei:
    • Popular-level public talk on supermassive black holes (Univ. of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK; Sept. 27, 2016. This file is 5.8 Gb in size. Recommend: Save it on your computer and watch the saved version.)
    • Popular-level public talk on supermassive black holes (Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics (PITP), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 22, 2017). The PITP web site for this talk is here.
    • Semi-popular-level talk for McDonald Obervatory Board of Visitors (2020 Nov. 19) on "Supermassive and Stellar-Mass Black Holes: Synergy in Science" (Caution: 90 Mb file)
    • Coevolution (Or Not) Of Supermassive Black Holes And Host Galaxies (Bishop Lecture at Columbia University, April 24, 2015: 1.9 Gb)
    • Coevolution (Or Not) Of Supermassive Black Holes And Host Galaxies (Colloquium at Harvard University, Oct. 15, 2015: 1.4 Gb)
    • Coevolution (Or Not) Of Supermassive Black Holes And Host Galaxies (Colloquium at Institute d'Astrophysique, Paris, Sept. 16, 2016: 0.6 Gb)
  • Popular-level articles on supermassive black holes and their relations to their host galaxies:
    • Why are there so many black holes? ("Astronomy" magazine, August 2016)
    • What links galaxies and black holes? ("Astronomy" magazine, November 2016)
  • Elliptical galaxies and bulges of disk galaxies
    • Kormendy et al. (2009, "KFCB") on the E--E and E--Sph dichotomies
  • Dark matter
  • Secular evolution in galaxy structure
    • Kormendy & Kennicutt (2004, ARA&A;, 42, 603)
  • Total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
  • Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
  • Other subjects

• Teaching:
  • AST 301 - Introduction to Astronomy (Fall 2000 to Spring 2017)
  • AST 386C - Properties of Galaxies (Spring 2013)
  • Graduate course on Judgment in Research ("JiR")
  • JiR Lecture on Effective Writing as low-resolution html or as a high-resolution pdf file

• Non-astronomical interests

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John Kormendy (kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu)