YIP+: Black hole mass measurements with Tidal Disruption Events (BlackTiDE)

BlackTiDE will study radiation from stars destroyed by black holes’ tidal forces. The project will identify thousands of such phenomena in a new telescopic survey and, employing a novel technique, it will unveil black hole structures by measuring light echoes and time delays. BlackTiDE will expand our view of the Universe’s black hole population across distances, black hole masses, and galaxy types, often inaccessible through other methods. The grant will fund one postdoc and one Ph.D. student.