Canada Research Chair In Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

哈格德教授研究了宇宙中物质的极端端点：黑洞和中子星。这个项目探索了这些奇异的物体是如何通过引力和爆炸性碰撞吸引物质而进化的。哈格德和她的团队将对超大质量黑洞进行密集的多波长研究，包括银河系的人马座A*，并寻找合并中子星和黑洞的宇宙闪光。她帮助领导了第一个电磁（可见光）引力波源对应物--中子星星合并GW 170817的开创性发现，现在将为多信使天体物理学的新兴领域铺平道路。

Professor Haggard investigates the extreme endpoints of matter in the universe: black holes and neutron stars. This project explores how these exotic objects evolve by attracting matter gravitationally and via explosive collisions. Haggard and her team will pursue intensive, multi-wavelength studies of supermassive black holes, including the Milky Way¿s Sagittarius A*, and search for cosmic flashes from merging neutron stars and black holes. She helped lead the groundbreaking discovery of the first electromagnetic (visual light) counterpart to a gravitational wave source, the neutron star merger GW170817, and will now pave the way for the emerging field of multi-messenger astrophysics.