Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away. These young galaxies seem to reside at the junction of gigantic filaments in a web of dark matter. These findings are important for understanding how monstrous galaxies like these form and how...
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves, have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. Though they appear to come from the distant Universe, none of these enigmatic events has revealed more than the slimmest details about how and where it formed, until now. By poring over 650...
On 19 November 2015, the National Science Board (NSB) authorized the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award a new 10-year, $862 million cooperative agreement to Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) for the management and operation of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), starting in FY2017. This announcement caps an open competition...
There has been significant media attention recently to a report about a sexual harassment case by a tenured faculty member at a major university, leading to much introspection within the astronomy community and at research institutions across the country. Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), the managing organization of the National Radio...