2024.08.30
Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
Observations to date have discovered a number of supermassive black holes with masses exceeding a billion times that of the Sun in the early Universe, when the…
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2024.04.11
Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'Sneezes' Tell us How You Are
Astronomers have discovered the remnants of powerful ‘sneezes’ expelling gas, dust, and electromagnetic energy around stars in the process of forming. The team…
2024.03.28
A Glimpse by Molecules - a Production Line Inside a Busy Star Factory in a Starburst Galaxy
An international research team led by Sergio Martín of the European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Nanase Harada of the National Astronomical Obs…
2024.01.25
M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow
This article is based on the press release issued by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration and others on January 18, 2024. Detailed Article M87* One …
2023.11.15
ALMA Achieves Highest Resolution Yet —With a combination of ALMA’s highest frequency Band 10 receivers and an array configuration with a baseline length of up to 16 km
ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has achieved its highest resolution since it began operation. An international team for extension of optimi…
2023.11.03
Supermassive Black Hole Feeding and Feedback are Finally Resolved at the Center of an Active Galaxy
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a groundbreaking mil…
2023.10.06
Astronomers Discover First Step Toward Planet Formation
An international research team led by Project Assistant Professor Satoshi Ohashi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has conducted high-re…
2023.09.04
ALMA Detects Small-scale Fluctuations in Dark Matter Distribution ---An important step towards understanding the nature of dark matter---
A research team led by Professor Kaiki Taro Inoue at Kindai University (Osaka, Japan) has discovered fluctuations in dark matter distribution in the Universe o…
2023.08.04
Triple Baby Stars Reach Out Three Arms to Feed with Materials
An international research team led by Jeong-Eun Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to …
2023.07.26
New image reveals secrets of planet birth
A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large…
2023.07.14
Stellar Cradles and Graves Seen in Farthest Galaxy Ever
A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoichi Tamura of Nagoya University has accomplished a remarkable feat by capturing a young galaxy from a period just 600…
2023.07.04
Baby Star Growing Fast through A 3-Layer Pancake-like Protostellar Disk
Protostellar disks play a crucial role in forming extrasolar systems, as they not only facilitate the growth of central protostars into mature stars, but also …
2023.03.02
Resurrected Supernova Provides Missing-Link in Stellar Evolution
An international research team has discovered the first example of a supernova, known as SN 2018ivc, showing an unprecedented rebrightening at millimeter wavel…
2023.02.03
Outflows from Baby Star Affect Nearby Star Formation
Astronomers revealed fast gas outflows from a baby star strongly colliding with nearby dense gas where a group of baby stars are being born. The result suggest…
2022.11.22
INTERNATIONAL TEAM OBSERVES INNERMOST STRUCTURE OF QUASAR JET
At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole. But not all supermassive black holes are alike: there are many types. Quasars, or quasi-st…
2022.10.26
The first cryogenic receivers that integrate all-metal 3D-printed RF components in radio astronomy
The NAOJ ALMA project and Advanced Technology Center have successfully fabricated corrugated horns by all-metal 3D-printing for the ALMA Band 1 receiver (Radio…
2022.07.01
Capturing the Onset of Galaxy Rotation in the Early Universe
An international research team led by Tsuyoshi Tokuoka, a graduate student at Waseda University in Japan, has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy, which ex…
2022.05.31
Unknown structure in galaxy revealed by high contrast imaging
A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its center. The…
2022.05.12
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence …
2021.12.02
Stellar Cocoon with Organic Molecules at the Edge of our Galaxy
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which is known …
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2024 10.8
Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
This article is a revised version. Please check the original press release by the European South Observatory here. This…
2024 10.4
Professor Fukagawa Named to Forbes JAPAN’s "Women in Tech 30" 2024
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In the November 2024 issue of Forbes JAPAN, Professor Misato Fukagawa, who serves as the East Asia Operations Manager o…
2024 10.3
ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk
This article is based on the press release issued by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on September 4, 2024. Ple…
