Professor Kenichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has been selected for the 58th Research Grant (FY2025) in the Space and Earth Science category from the Ito Science Foundation. The grant supports his project entitled “Observational Study of Dust-Obscured Supermassive Black Holes with ALMA”.

The Ito Science Foundation Research Grant Program supports fundamental research in the natural sciences, with the aim of fostering young researchers and contributing to the advancement of basic science.

Professor Tadaki’s research focuses on the growth of supermassive black holes with masses exceeding one billion times that of the Sun in the early Universe. By pioneering the use of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at very high spatial resolution, he has investigated the physical conditions within galaxies in detail and demonstrated new observational methods for probing black hole activity obscured by dust (solid particles).
The research with ALMA is expected to further advance our understanding of black hole growth and to contribute to opening pathways for future studies in extragalactic astronomy.

Credit: NAOJ

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