This $124,631 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research effort led by the Regents of the University of Michigan to study supermassive black holes and their relativistic jets. The key objectives include addressing how supermassive black holes form in the early universe, determining the number of binary supermassive black holes, and testing theories on the launching mechanism for relativistic jets. The project will utilize the 40M telescope at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the Very Long Baseline Array, integrating radio observations with optical, infrared, X-ray, gamma-ray, and gravitational wave data. Five graduate students will contribute to the research, which also includes an outreach program focused on studying jets with disadvantaged schools. The award period runs from September 2024 through August 2029.
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