Konstantinos (Kostas) Kritos

News

Nov 2026 — Upcoming TAC Seminar at UC Berkeley: “Two in one: gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals from dense stellar environments.”

Oct 2026 — Blackboard talk at the Black Hole Initiative, Harvard: “Dancing with the Black Holes: building heavy black holes in dense star clusters.”

Oct 2026 — Talk at the 2026 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Symposium, Cambridge, MA: “One Environment, Two Signals: Linking Gravitational Waves and Micro-TDEs in Dense Star Clusters.”

Sep 2026 — Started as a NASA Hubble Fellow at Stony Brook University.

Sep 2026 — New paper: compact-object mergers and micro-tidal disruption events as a multi-messenger probe of dense stellar environments

Aug 2026 — Seminar at Stony Brook University: “From Small to Large: Black Hole Growth Across Ten Orders of Magnitude.”

2026 — Ph.D. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University.

2026 — Kritos & Silk, “From nuclear star clusters to Little Red Dots”, published in ApJ.

2026 — “Primordial Black-Hole-Based Pathways to Little Red Dots” published in Physical Review Letters (PRL 136, 231402).

2026 — “Milky Way Globular Clusters: Nurseries for Dynamically-Formed Binary Black Holes” published in A&A (A&A 708, A364).

May 2026 — New paper: predicting intermediate-mass black hole formation in star clusters with machine learning

Feb 2026 — New paper: Toward Black Hole Stars (now published in ApJ Letters).

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