Understanding the Universe’s ‘Hidden Monsters’

A prestigious award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will aid astrophysicist Ryan Hickox in his quest to understand “hidden monsters.”   The “monsters” Hickox studies are supermassive black holes, and the grant, a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, offers five years of support for his project, titled “The Hidden Monsters: Cosmic Evolution of Obscured Supermassive Black Holes.”  The “monsters” Hickox studies are supermassive black holes, and the grant, a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, offers five years of support for his project, titled “The Hidden Monsters: Cosmic Evolution of Obscured Supermassive Black Holes.” Hickox will use the funding, totaling $672,000, to analyze data generated by observatories in which Dartmouth is a partner, including the Southern African Large Telescope and the MDM Observatory in Arizona. Hickox and his research team will also perform statistical analyses of large data sets from NASA space observatories.

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