Groundbreaking Discovery of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

Grad student Karishma Bansal and Professor Greg Taylor observed and measured a supermassive black hole orbiting another 750 million light years away; media response overwhelming.

See the UNM Newsroom article and the KRQE broadcast. Coverage as far afield as India, New Zealand, and further beyond. See the original article Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary 0402+379 in The Astrophysical Journal.

Prof. Allahverdi Co-Organized XI International Conference On Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology

This conference was hosted by Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, TX on May 22-26, 2017. It involved more than 80 particle theorists, experimentalists, cosmologists, and observational astronomers. The talks addressed most recent experimental data, major theoretical models, the upcoming future experiments, and future possible experiments that are at the proposal stage. The conference also included student and public forums with Nobel Laureates David Gross and Adam Riess on May 23.