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![Astronomers Discover Magnetic Loops Around Supermassive Black Hole](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Maser_Draft-1-585x300.png)
NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its…
![ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Huang_disk_illsutration_11122024-585x300.png)
New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar…
![Over 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone can now receive satellite internet service](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NRQZ-map-585x300.png)
The vast majority of people within the areas of Virginia and West Virginia collectively known as the National Radio…
![A Cosmic Chemical Breakthrough: Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks for Complex Organic Matter](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/website-banner-astrochemistry-mcguire-dagnello-25-585x300.png)
The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches…
![Massive Stars Born from Violent Cosmic Collapse](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GBT-star3-585x300.jpg)
Controlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed evidence that…
![AI Meets the Cosmos: Astronomers’ Ambitious Plan to Tackle Astronomical Big Data](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/24-09-18-NSF-Simons-AI-astronomy-institutes-hero-image-585x300.jpg)
Astronomers collect almost unbelievable amounts of data when they observe the Universe with telescopes. Some research collects petabytes of…