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.
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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.
New Details of Supermassive Black Hole’s Shadow Revealed
Jan 19, 2024
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of supermassive black hole M87*. A recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics presents new images from data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and several other instruments within the EHT.
Massive Gas Clouds Escape Center of Milky Way
Jan 11, 2024
The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope has discovered over 250 gaseous clouds being blasted out of the center of the Milky Way into interstellar space. A decade ago, astronomers weren’t aware of this phenomenon. It took years of observations, and some surprising finds, to produce this latest result.