MG 12 · 2009
Christine Jones
Christine Jones is an astrophysicist known for X-ray studies of galaxies, clusters, dark matter, and feedback from supermassive black holes.
United States
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
“For her fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies and clusters tracing their formation and evolution and for her role in collaborations using clusters to study dark matter and in analyzing the effects of outbursts from supermassive black holes on the intracluster gas.”
MG XII, Paris, France
Work
X-ray observations reveal hot gas in galaxies and clusters, exposing dark matter potentials and energetic feedback.
Jones used X-ray observatories to study cluster evolution, intracluster gas, and the impact of active galactic nuclei.
Her work made galaxy clusters powerful laboratories for dark matter, structure formation, and black-hole feedback.