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Spring 2025

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Black holes, Big and Small

Jessica Lu - Professor, Astronomy

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

My research group studies black holes in the Milky Way in two ways: (1) we search for stellar-mass black holes using gravitational microlensing and (2) we study the environment around the supermassive. black hole at the Galactic Center. Interested undergraduates may work in either of these areas. Possible projects...

 Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Astronomical instruments for studies of black holes and stars.

Jessica Lu - Professor, Astronomy

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The Moving Universe Lab helps design and build the astronomical instruments needed to find and study black holes, star cluster, and galactic centers. We work on adaptive optics development projects on small and large ground-based telescopes (e.g. Keck Observatory). Adaptive optics systems correct for the blurring effects of the...

 Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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