WVU researchers just scored nearly $6M to use 70 millisecond pulsars as cosmic clocks, hunting spacetime ripples. Detecting a single supermassive black hole binary would unlock huge insights into galaxy mergers!
Backed by $5.9 million in National Science Foundation funding, West Virginia University researchers are employing "millisecond pulsars"—rapidly rotating neutron stars—as celestial clocks to hunt for g