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.

Acosta receives prestigious Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation award

Victor Acosta

Congratulations to Victor Acosta, UNM Physics & Astronomy assistant professor and CHTM faculty member, upon receiving a Beckman Young Investigators Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for his research project,“Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy on a Diamond Chip.” The award is in the amount of $750,000 and will begin September 1, 2017, distributed over four years.

See the full article from the Center for High Technology Materials website.