The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is a U.S.-based philanthropic foundation established in 2000 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty. While not a space agency, the foundation supports scientific discovery, including astronomy and astrophysics, through grantmaking to organizations like the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for projects such as the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX). Their funding aims to advance technology and research in areas relevant to space exploration and observation, such as laser downlink technology for space-based telescopes. The Foundation also supports higher education institutions like Caltech.
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The DESI collaboration has support from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Mexico’s SECIHTI, Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation, and DESI member institutions.
NANOGrav receives support from the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, an NSERC Discovery Grant, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
The research paper was funded by various organizations, including the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF).