Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An…
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Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its…
Radio image of Jupiter made with ALMA. Bright bands indicate high temperatures and dark bands low temperatures. The dark bands correspond to the zones on…
Composite view of an observation showing thousands of galaxies in radio light and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in the South African Karoo semidesert. The…
Artist impression of what MAMBO-9 would look like in visible light. The galaxy is very dusty and it has yet to build most of its…
[embedded content] What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
Composite image of the galaxy NGC 4631, the “Whale Galaxy,” revealing large magnetic structures. Credit: Composite image by Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba,…
ALMA Sheds Light on the Mystery of Missing Massive Galaxies – A visualization of cold carbon monoxide gas in the Sculptor Galaxy. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF From…
Artist’s impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S.…
Artist impression of the heart of galaxy NGC 1068, which harbors an actively feeding supermassive black hole, hidden within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust…
Artist impression of the pulse from a massive neutron star being delayed by the passage of a white dwarf star between the neutron star and…
Radio image of the center of the Milky Way with a portion of the MeerKAT telescope array in the foreground. The plane of the galaxy…
[embedded content] Artists’ animation showing Jupiter in radio waves with ALMA and in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), I.…
Artist impression of ring of cool, interstellar gas surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. New ALMA observations reveal this…
ALMA’s high-resolution images of nearby protoplanetary disks, which are results of the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Andrews…