A National Science Foundation grant of more than $437,000 will go to the Rochester Institute of Technology to continue groundbreaking research into gravitational waves.
A team of six researchers at RIT were among those who first detected gravity waves in February, providing new confirmation to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It was a major breakthrough in physics.
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says the funding supports the “Einstein Toolkit,” a software platform used by scientists worldwide who are sharing research into this branch of astrophysics.