2021.07.13
Do Supernova Explosions feed a Big Eater Black Hole?
It has long been a mystery how a black hole at the center of a galaxy swallows gas from the huge rotating gas disk around it. Observations with two radio teles…
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2021.07.13
It has long been a mystery how a black hole at the center of a galaxy swallows gas from the huge rotating gas disk around it. Observations with two radio teles…
2021.07.08
Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The receiver is capable of capturing radio waves at frequen…
2021.07.01
Planet formation is still a mystery. Astronomers have been studying protoplanetary discs for decades, trying to solve the details of planetary genesis. Thanks …
2021.06.16
Two young ALMA researchers, Dr. Takafumi Kojima at NAOJ and Dr. Takuya Hashimoto at University of Tsukuba received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2021 Commendati…
2021.06.15
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, …
2021.06.11
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion y…
2021.06.08
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses. Some SMBHs are in a bright phas…
2021.05.25
The ALMA Call for Proposals (CfP) for observations in Cycle 8 2021 had a fantastic response from the community with a record number of hours requested. And, fo…
2021.05.21
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion y…
2021.05.14
The ALMA observations by a team of researchers led by Takahiro Iino, Project Associate Professor of Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, det…
2021.04.27
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a flare from Earth’s nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, that is…
2021.04.20
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Un…
2021.04.14
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievem…
2021.04.09
The NAOJ Young Researchers Award was established in 2018 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of NAOJ. The award aims to encourage young researchers at NAOJ who…
2021.03.31
The NAOJ Public Talk 2021/ the 25th ALMA Public Talk was held online on Saturday, March 6. The event started from 9 a.m. Japan time (21:00 Chile time), conside…
2021.03.29
Astronomers found a number of baby stars hiding around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous stud…
2021.03.26
ALMA is very pleased to share the positive news that science observations re-started on 17 March 2021. These were the first scientific data to be acquired sinc…
2021.03.24
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the …
2021.03.18
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers have directly measured winds in Jupiter’s middle atmosphere for the first …
2021.03.16
While the impact of COVID-19 continues to affect our lives worldwide, ALMA staff have been moving forward on the long road toward recovering the Arrays and res…
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
An international research team led by Professor Ken-ichi Tadaki of Hokkai-Gakuen University has made a groundbreaking d…
This article is based on the press release issued by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers…