The Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a watch party at 1 p.m. Thursday (June 29) in White Hall, Room G09, in conjunction with a livestream event from the North American Nanohertz Observatory collaboration, also known as NANOGrav.
This collaboration, which includes multiple WVU faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff and students, was formed in 2007 with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves by timing a network of cosmic clocks — called pulsars — with large radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope, located in Pocahontas County.
The Department invites faculty, students and staff from across the University to join them in watching the one-hour presentation from the National Science Foundation in Washington.