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...
18 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...
04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
... limits. This could be achieved by observing ammonia isotopes with the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Band 7 – a process that could be achieved in a couple of hours, should the observing time be successfully obtained. More...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... Space Observatory, the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique Northern Extended Millimeter Array (IRAM NOEMA), and ESO's Very Large Telescope...
26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way and one of the closest galaxies to Earth and recent research conducted by an international team of astronomers have found that the LMC could potentially have its own ...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
... object, the researchers are hoping to use other telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) along with more Hubble time, to more accurately measure the speed of the black hole and its...
