Stephen Taylor got a new NSF grant to\u00a0build the most sophisticated Galaxy catalog ever for multimessenger host follow-up of supermassive black hole binaries found by NANOGrav. Prof. Taylor describes the project:<\/p>\n
\u2014 With the recent breakthrough evidence for a background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, we now turn to the source. Where does it come from?<\/p>\n
\u2014 The most likely answer is a cosmic population of pairs of the most massive black holes in the Universe, circling each other and sitting at the centers of truly huge galaxies.<\/p>\n
\u2014 We will be developing new search techniques and methods, and building the most sophisticated look-up catalog ever to hunt for the host galaxies of gravitational-wave events found by NANOGrav.<\/p>\n
\u2014 By combining our understanding of gravity and light, we paint a more complete portrait of the Universe on massive scales. This will inaugurate the field of multi-messenger astronomy for supermassive black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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