03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... technology available at the time. Now, with telescopes like ALMA on board which has undergone several upgrades in order to ... an extremely accurate atomic clock that is critical to link ALMA to the entire VLBI network, along with new hard drives...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... velocity structure has recently been suggested by other observations of the compound carbon monosulfide (CS), also taken with ALMA, thus adding weight to this suggestion. These findings hence point to these particular COM emission lines as tracing...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... about an object. The Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) is a one example of many antennas working together ...the cosmos in finer detail than ever before. Unlike ALMA, GRAVITY uses visible light (not Millimetre/Submillimetre radiation...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
...Scorpius, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a pair of massive stars growing in...and see what is going on. Using the resolving power of ALMA to study a massive young binary system known as IRAS 16547-...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... researcher in astrophysics, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Fellow at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands and a member of the ALMA Arc node (Allegro). Her research interests include stellar evolution, chemical enrichment of the Galaxy, and...
17 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... 45-m Telescope and high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have the potential to increase the number of black hole candidates dramatically." As recent observations have revealed...
