2018.12.18
Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepens
Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium inc…
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2018.11.30
Black Hole 'Donuts' are Actually 'Fountains'
Based on computer simulations and new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have found that the rings of gas s…
2018.11.22
ALMA’s Highest Frequency Receiver produces its First Scientific Result on Massive Star Formation
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has opened another new window to the Universe. Using its highest frequency receivers yet, researchers o…
2018.08.30
Unstoppable Monster in the Early Universe - ALMA obtains most detailed view of distant starburst galaxy
Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimete…
2018.05.17
ALMA Finds Oxygen 13.28 Billion Light-Years Away - Most Distant Oxygen Indicates Mature Nature of a Young Galaxy
Astronomers detected a faint but definite signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us, through observations using the Atacama L…
2018.02.20
No relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy!? - The co-evolution mystery deepened by a new ALMA observation
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe an active galaxy with a strong ionized gas outflow from the galactic center, a team le…
2018.02.14
Rotating Dusty Gaseous Donut around an Active Supermassive Black Hole
High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black…
2017.11.10
Winds blowing off a dying star
Stars like our Sun eject large amounts of gas and dust into space, containing various elements and compounds. Asymptotic giant branch — AGB — phase…
2017.11.06
Forest of Molecular Signals in Star Forming Galaxy
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among …
2017.09.28
First Detection of an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Milky Way
An image of clouds accelerating due to gravitational scattering caused by the intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: Tomoharu Oka (Keio University) Professor To…
2017.09.11
Explosive Birth of Stars Swells Galactic Cores - ALMA spots transforming disk galaxies
Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they o…
2017.08.02
Running Out of Gas: Gas Loss Puts Brakes on Stellar Baby Boom
Astronomers observed a galaxy cluster 9.4 billion light-years away using the ALMA radio telescope array and found evidence that hot gas strips away the cold ga…
2017.06.13
ALMA Hears Birth Cry of a Massive Baby Star
An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched. The team used the A…
2017.03.08
Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars—Most distant object ever observed by ALMA
Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy…
2017.02.08
Protostar displays a strange geometry
One of the big puzzles in astrophysics is how stars like the sun manage to form from collapsing molecular clouds in star-forming regions of the universe. The…
2016.12.05
ALMA measures size of seeds of planets
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particl…
2016.10.13
Dense molecular gas disks drive the growth of supermassive black holes—Are supernova explosions the key?
A joint team of University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators, using ALMA and other telescopes that utilize radio waves for space observation, reve…
2016.09.29
Discovery of an Extragalactic Hot Molecular Core
Astronomers have discovered a ‘hot molecular core’, a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our Gala…
2016.09.14
ALMA Spots Possible Formation Site of Icy Giant Planet
Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Based on the…
2016.06.17
ALMA Detected the Most Distant Oxygen
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a clear signal from oxygen in a galaxy located 13.1 billion light-years aw…
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2025 4.17
Akimasa Kataoka Received the Young Scientists’ Award by MEXT
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Dr. Akimasa Kataoka at NAOJ received the Young Scientists’ Award, 2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the M…
2025 4.15
Takafumi Tsukui Received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
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Takafumi Tsukui at the Australian National University (currently Tohoku University) received Inoue Research Award for Y…
2025 3.31
ACA Total Power Array Spectrometer Development Team Receives NAOJ Director General’s Award
The ACA Spectrometer development team has received the NAOJ Director General’s Award in the Technical and Development C…
