Daniel Holz

Daniel Holz

  • Title: Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics
  • Education: PhD, University of Chicago; SM, University of Chicago; BA, Princeton University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2011
  • blackhole@uchicago.edu
  • @decohere

Daniel Holz

Daniel Holz's research focuses on gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of space-time created by powerful events like black hole collisions—with a particular focus on what we can learn about physics, astronomy, and cosmology from our detections.

Holz is a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which made the first detection of gravitational waves. Holz is also a leader in measuring the Hubble constant - the rate at which the universe is expanding—via gravitational wave "standard sirens" (a name he coined in 2006). Holz was among the authors who published the first standard siren measurement, in the wake of the 2017 gravitational-wave detection of a neutron star collision.

Holz Stories

Doomsday Clock moves closest ever to apocalypse—at 89 seconds to midnight

'Any move towards midnight should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning,' said the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding

UChicago astronomers propose ‘spectral siren’ method to understand evolution of the universe

What will the next decade bring in science?

After CRISPR and the groundbreaking LIGO gravitational wave discovery, what could be next as the 2020s begin?

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Black holes, Dark Energy and Dark Matter, General relativity, Gravitational lensing, Gravitational waves