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Astronomers Discover ‘Space Tornadoes’ Around the Milky Way’s Core

Astronomers Discover ‘Space Tornadoes’ Around the Milky Way’s Core

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have sharpened our view of the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy by a factor of 100, discovering a surprising new filamentary structure in this mysterious region of space.

AUI Launches New Podcast

AUI Launches New Podcast

“Beyond the Breakthrough” a new podcast from AUI, takes listeners behind the scenes of big science discoveries and developments. The first episode will launch on March 26.

Hidden Cosmic Fuel Tank Found in Infant Galaxy Cluster

Hidden Cosmic Fuel Tank Found in Infant Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with complementary data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), have discovered a surprisingly large reservoir of molecular gas in a protocluster of galaxies known as SPT2349-56.

ALMA Shares New View of Proxima Centauri

ALMA Shares New View of Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri’s flare activity has been well known to astronomers using visible wavelengths of light, but a new study using observations with ALMA highlight this star’s extreme activity in radio and millimeter wavelengths, offering exciting insights about the particle nature of these flares as well as potential impacts to the livability of its terrestrial, habitable-zone planets.