Theoretical astrophysics · Compact objects

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez

Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

I am a theoretical astrophysicist investigating the Universe’s most energetic events, particularly those taking place in the extreme environments around compact objects. My work explores how matter falls into black holes, how relativistic outflows are launched, and how these processes imprint themselves across multiple cosmic messengers. I am also deeply interested in how strong, rapidly evolving gravitational fields, such as those produced during black hole or neutron star mergers, reshape these phenomena. To probe these scenarios, I combine semi-analytical modeling with large-scale numerical simulations.

Potsdam, Germany

Research

Binary neutron star mergers

Radiation from Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Nonthermal processes in hot accretion flows

Relativistic Jets from AGNs

News

Oct 2026 Joined the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam as a postdoctoral researcher.
Oct 2026 New paper on the accretion flow and jet of M87 across spatial scales, with a public reproduction package.
Sep 2026 Magnetic field configurations in binary neutron star mergers I and II published in Phys. Rev. D.
Jun 2026 Invited talk at the Perimeter Institute Strong Gravity Seminar.

Selected publications

Turbulent Dynamo Action in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, David Radice, Jacob Fields, and 1 more author

accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett., Jan 2026

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Cocoon shock breakout emission from binary neutron star mergers

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Mukul Bhattacharya, David Radice, and 2 more authors

Phys. Rev. D, 111(6), Mar 2025

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Accretion Onto Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Luciano Combi, and Geoffrey Ryan

Invited Chapter in New Frontiers in GRMHD Simulations (eds. C. Bambi, Y. Mizuno, S. Shashank, F. Yuan), Springer Nature Singapore, Mar 2025

Abs DOI

In this chapter, we give an overview of our current understanding of the physics of accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), with a special focus on the latest developments in numerical simulations and General-Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations in particular. We give a self-contained global picture of how to model accretion onto MBHBs, analyzing different aspects of the system such as the dynamics of the circumbinary disk, mini-disks, outflows, the role of magnetic fields, and electromagnetic signatures. We discuss important questions and open problems related to these systems, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the different numerical approaches, and what robust knowledge we have built from simulations.
Non-thermal radiation from dual jet interactions in supermassive black hole binaries

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Luciano Combi, Gustavo E. Romero, and 1 more author

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 532(1), Jul 2024

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Electromagnetic Signatures from Supermassive Binary Black Holes Approaching Merger

Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Luciano Combi, Scott C. Noble, and 4 more authors

The Astrophys. J., 928(2), Apr 2022

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Nonthermal processes in hot accretion flows onto supermassive black holes: An inhomogeneous model

E. M. Gutiérrez, F. L. Vieyro, and G. E. Romero

Astron. & Astrophys., 649, May 2021

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