Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences News
Aculmination of 15 years of data, observed by over 190 scientists from the US and Canada, has resulted in a remarkable discovery: the first evidence for gravitational waves at very low frequencies. UF astrophysicist LAURA BLECHA and graduate student ANALIS EVANS contributed their expertise to the continent-wide collaboration, and the results were published today as a set of papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
With the support of the National Science Foundation, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves(opens in new tab) (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center uses a network of radio telescopes to transform a collection of millisecond pulsars into a galaxy-scale gravitational-wave detector. Read More ->