PULLMAN, Wash., July 22 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
Equipped with the largest digital camera ever built, the newly opened VeraC. Rubin Observatory in Chile will photograph the southern night sky every few nights for the next decade. Washington State University astronomer Vivienne Baldassare plans to search that time-lapse movie of the universe for the flickering signatures of elusive black holes.
Baldassare, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, received a $90,000grant from the LSST Discovery Alliance to use early observatory data to identify intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies, which contain far fewer stars than galaxies such as the MilkyWay. These black holes fall in size betw...