This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $159,547 supports a collaborative research effort to study the growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes. The research aims to determine the merger rates of these black holes and relate them to gravitational wave observations, investigate black hole growth during the peak period of activity, and map the complete history of black hole accretion. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $377,113 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to uncover the secrets behind the growth of supermassive black holes located at the centers of galaxies. The project aims to 1) determine the merger rates of supermassive black holes and relate these to gravitational wave observations, 2) investigate the growth of supermassive black holes during the peak period of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project that aims to uncover the growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies. The $588,357 award, effective September 1, 2024, will be utilized by Yale University to pursue three key objectives: 1) determine SMBH merger rates and relate them to gravitational wave observations, 2)...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $496,234 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund collaborative research to explore the formation and growth of supermassive black holes through variability and transients observations. Researchers will use data from the Young Supernova Experiment imaging survey to identify intermediate mass black holes and study...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $104,875 awarded on January 1, 2023 will fund research into measuring fluctuations in radiation from active supermassive black holes and the resulting echoes from surrounding gas clouds. Led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), this two-year project will use reverberation mapping with multi-object spectroscopy to measure black hole masses on an unprecedented...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, provides $506,976 to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to support research on supermassive black holes. The primary objectives are to map the flows of gas into and out of the centers of accreting supermassive black holes using a combination of reverberation mapping and X-ray spectroscopy techniques. This research will address key questions about how black...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $414,595 in funding to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from August 15, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The award supports a research program led by the Principal Investigator to study the long-term growth of supermassive black holes and their relationship to host galaxy properties and cosmic environment. The research will utilize a large sample of 1.3...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $153,355 Project Grant to the University of Alaska Anchorage under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance the understanding of the relationship between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. The 3-year award will support a comprehensive study of the regions surrounding black holes in a large sample of nearby active galactic nuclei. Key activities include measuring the distribution and motions of molecular,...
This $124,631 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research project to study supermassive black holes and relativistic jets. The 5-year project, starting September 1, 2024, will be conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan. Key objectives include determining the number of binary supermassive black holes in the early universe, studying the structure and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $538,767 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) to conduct research under the federal Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 3-year project is to address key gaps in understanding the co-evolution of supermassive black holes, galaxies, and gravitational-wave sources in the early universe. Using state-of-the-art cosmological simulations, the researchers will study the impact of...