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NRAO’s Central Development Laboratory: Making the Invisible Visible

NRAO’s Central Development Laboratory: Making the Invisible Visible

The team at CDL pushes the limits of engineering to help NRAO see the universe in new and powerful ways. Nestled among the hills of the University of Virginia campus are a couple of nondescript buildings. They are home to NRAO’s Central Development Laboratory (CDL). The buildings are easy to overlook, just as it is easy to overlook the work done...

IAU-NRF Regional Office of Astronomy for Development Launched in North America

IAU-NRF Regional Office of Astronomy for Development Launched in North America

The North American Regional Office of Astronomy for Development was officially established on 29th January 2020 at a signing ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. The event was attended by the President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and marked the formation of the eleventh Regional Office of Astronomy for Development. The ceremony,...

Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Roughly half of the newly-discovered black holes are not at the centers of their galaxies Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF Astronomers seeking to learn about the mechanisms that formed massive black holes in the early history of the Universe have gained important new clues with the discovery of 13 such black holes in dwarf galaxies less than...

ALMA Spots Most Distant Dusty Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight

ALMA Spots Most Distant Dusty Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy, called MAMBO-9, is the most distant dusty star-forming galaxy that has ever been observed without the help of a gravitational lens . Dusty star-forming galaxies are the...