The Zooniverse team gets input from the general public for discovering astronomical objects. I’ve been involved in the search through Kepler data for exoplanets.
Zooniverse has a brand new project called ‘Radio Galaxy Zoo’. We need you to help us discover black holes.
Earlier this year, Galaxy Zoo expanded to include the infrared. Now Radio Galaxy Zoo involves looking at galaxies in (yet) another light. This time we are asking you to match huge jets – seen in radio emission – to the supermassive black holes at the centre of the galaxy that produced them. This requires looking at the galaxies in infrared and radio wavelengths. These galaxies are not like our own, and your classifications will allow scientists to understand the causes of these erupting black holes and how they affect the galaxy surrounding them.
Get involved now at Radio Galaxy Zoo – and have fun discovering black holes in our Universe.