Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: Searching for Runaway Supermassive Black Holes and What can DESI tell us about our Universe

Searching for Runaway Supermassive Black Holes

Speaker: Anavi Uppal, UC Santa Cruz

What Can the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Tell Us About Our Universe?

DESI has recently made big headlines with its tentative discovery that Dark Energy, an unknown and elusive force causing an acceleration in the Universe’s expansion, may be weakening. In this talk, I will explain how this discovery was made, and place it in the context of other cosmology research.

Speaker: Sven Heydenreich, UC Santa Cruz