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Telescopes Show the Milky Way’s Black Hole is Ready for a Kick

Telescopes Show the Milky Way’s Black Hole is Ready for a Kick

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).

ALMA Gets a New Heartbeat

ALMA Gets a New Heartbeat

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.