Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018)

Donald Lynden-Bell

British theoretical astrophysicist

Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985–1987)…