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How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
February 20, 2020 at 10:00 am | News Release

An international team of astronomers used ALMA and the VLA to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.

New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life
New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life
February 11, 2020 at 1:58 pm | News Release

New technologies that enable new strategies are revitalizing the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), by not only augmenting the traditional search for intelligently-generated radio signals but also allowing searches for other signs of life and technological activity.

NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs
NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs
February 11, 2020 at 1:25 pm | Announcement

NRAO and the SETI Institute will develop a new system to provide VLA data to an advanced signal processor that will seek to detect signs of extraterrestrial technologies.

Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
January 5, 2020 at 3:30 pm | News Release

Studies with the VLA indicate that roughly half of the massive black holes in dwarf galaxies are not in the centers of those galaxies. This gives astronomers new insights into the conditions in which similar black holes formed and grew in the early history of the Universe.

IMAGE RELEASE: Giant Magnetic Ropes in a Galaxy’s Halo
IMAGE RELEASE: Giant Magnetic Ropes in a Galaxy’s Halo
November 26, 2019 at 8:00 am | News Release

VLA image reveals a large-scale magnetic field extending far into a galaxy’s extended halo.

A Weakened Black Hole Allows its Galaxy to Awaken
A Weakened Black Hole Allows its Galaxy to Awaken
November 18, 2019 at 1:00 pm | News Release

Astronomers have found the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. The discovery revealed new details of how supermassive black holes affect their host galaxies.

New Method May Resolve Difficulty in Measuring Universe’s Expansion
New Method May Resolve Difficulty in Measuring Universe’s Expansion
July 8, 2019 at 11:00 am | News Release

Radio telescope observations have made it possible for astronomers to use mergers of neutron-star pairs as a valuable new tool for measuring the Universe’s expansion.

Illustration of the accretion disk around a black hole.
The Giant In Our Backyard
April 16, 2019 at 9:55 am | News Feature

For decades astronomers have dreamed of seeing a black hole. That dream may soon become a reality.

VLA Makes First Direct Image of Key Feature of Powerful Radio Galaxies
VLA Makes First Direct Image of Key Feature of Powerful Radio Galaxies
April 2, 2019 at 1:19 pm | News Release

A dusty, doughnut-shaped feature long thought to be an essential part of the “engines” at the cores of active galaxies, is seen for the first time in one of the most powerful galaxies in the Universe.

Pulsar escaping SNR
Astronomers Find “Cannonball Pulsar” Speeding Through Space
March 19, 2019 at 12:00 pm | News Release

VLA image shows the trail of a speeding pulsar pointing directly back at the center of the debris shell from the supernova explosion that created it.

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