A team including Mathew Madhavacheril, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the School of Arts & Sciences, is among the first-ever recipients of funding from a new initiative supporting an ambitious 10-year project. The undertaking aims to answer pressing questions about dark energy, dark matter, and supermassive black holes, among other space phenomena.
Dr. Madhavacheril’s team, which includes colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Utah, will receive $60,000 in direct costs to support its ongoing research into relativistic transients, or energetic explosions in the broader universe. The award is one of 21 equal allotments that will support 20 scientists from various Canadian and U.S. universities and institutions, part of a broader push to ensure the success of the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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