Research summary
Black holes and neutron stars are the extreme endpoints of matter in the universe. These exotic objects evolve by attracting matter gravitationally and through explosive collisions. As Canada Research Chair in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, Dr. Daryl Haggard is exploring these processes.
Haggard helped lead the ground-breaking discovery of the first electromagnetic (visual light) counterpart to a gravitational wave source—the neutron star merger GW170817—and now she is paving the way for the emerging field of multi-messenger astrophysics. She and her research 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.