Quasar jet, synchrotron emission
See the Synchray.jl code

Sasha (Alexander) Plavin

PhD in Astrophysics | Curriculum vitae

Play For the curious

Black hole lensing the camera view
🕳️ Black Hole at Home

Put a black hole in your room, watch it warp everything around. Screen/camera/VR/AR.

Top of Hacker News, July 2026

Grid of interactive astronomy demo screenshots
🔭 Astronomy Sandbox

Made for lectures, useful for anyone curious.

VLBI Explorer dashboard
📡 VLBI Explorer

Build your own Earth-sized telescope: pick real arrays like the EHT and watch how they image a black hole, from raw data to reconstruction.

Blazar lightcurves turned into sound
🎵 Sonification

Hear the universe: real astronomical data turned into sound.

Research Code, tools, papers

📄 Publications

Featured Publications focusing on observational studies of blazars – extreme active galaxies, the most powerful accelerators in the universe.

For the complete publication list, see NASA ADS or Google Scholar.
🛠️ AstroTools

Research-grade interactive software for astronomical data analysis, focusing on radio interferometry / VLBI.
Written in Julia, easy to install and get started!

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🖥️ Scientific Computing

I extensively use Julia in my research, developing both end-user tools and open-source packages.

  • Code to reproduce figures from recent papers of mine
  • My packages on GitHub: astronomy and beyond
Feel free to reach me via alexander@plav.in.