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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has been observing the Northern TeV gamma-ray sky since 2014. With a duty cycle of nearly 24 hours per day and a field-of-view of ~2 sr, it is an excellent instrument for performing unbiased surveys. Here, we present science results from the first eight years of operations. This includes the first catalog of astrophysical sources emitting above 100 TeV, the discovery of a new class of Galactic sources (TeV halos), the detection of several TeV gamma-ray binaries, and searches for dark matter. HAWC observes several dark matter-rich regions, such as dwarf galaxies, each day, allowing us to search for gamma rays from dark matter interactions in those targets. We will also discuss the status of HAWC’s multi-messenger and multi-wavelength programs, which include searches for GRBs, follow-ups to gravitational wave detections, and joint analyses with other TeV instruments.
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