If ever there were a perfect metaphor for stimulus grants, it’s the $1,075,873 sent to Vanderbilt University to study supermassive black holes. Tax-funded research will delve into how these black holes merge, grow, and react to galactic influences. As an aside, the grant calls for the school to “execute a comprehensive plan that will address the underrepresentation of women and minorities in astrophysics.”
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