Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium.
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ALMA Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger
Jan 13, 2023
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)— scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy.
Hydrogen Masers Reveal New Secrets of a Massive Star to ALMA Scientists
Jan 13, 2023
While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the masers around oddball star MWC 349A scientists discovered something unexpected: a previously unseen jet of material launching from the star’s gas disk at impossibly high speeds.
Northwest Indian College Hosts Inaugural Cosmovisions of the Pacific Meeting
Jan 12, 2023
Indigenous and non-indigenous people gathered at Northwest Indian College (NWIC) to explore similarities and differences between Indigenous ways of knowing and non-indigenous science practices in astronomyelated disciplines at the first gathering of the Cosmovisions of the Pacific.