Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100930

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100930

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Weighing Black Holes with The Australian Dark Energy Survey. This project plans to measure how supermassive black holes have evolved over the last 12 billion years. Direct measurements of central black hole masses only exist for about 40 relatively nearby galaxies. The unique time-lapse observations and five-year baseline of the Australian Dark Energy Survey will enable us to measure masses for about 400 black holes, an order of magnitude more than previously possible. In addition to weighing black holes, recent results show that with precision measurement these systems may provide a standard candle, a new fundamental yardstick for cosmology. Unlike supernova observations that discovered dark energy, our measurements are practical to distances stretching back across 90 per cent of the observable universe.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $360,900.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences

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