The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).
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ALMA Gets a New Heartbeat
Feb 7, 2024
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has just received a “heart transplant,” high in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. ALMA, the most complex astronomical observatory ever built on Earth, installed a new hydrogen maser.
First Recipient of Women in Engineering Fellowship Joins Staff of Central Development Laboratory
Jan 31, 2024
Following a generous grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Central Development Laboratory (CDL) at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has selected their first recipient of the postdoctoral Women in Engineering fellowship, Priyanka Mondal.
Astronomers Discover Most Massive Neutron Star—or Least Massive Black Hole
Jan 19, 2024
Green Bank Telescope helps MeerKAT uncover a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars.