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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.

EHT image of event horizon in the central supermassive black hole of M87
Radio Astronomy and Black Holes
April 10, 2019 at 9:07 am | News Room

Using the EHT, with ALMA as its most sensitive component, astronomers have captured the first direct visual evidence of a black hole: an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87), a giant elliptical galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth.

Image Release: ALMA Shows Birth of Spiraling Giants
Image Release: ALMA Shows Birth of Spiraling Giants
March 18, 2019 at 3:04 pm | News Feature

Using ALMA, astronomers have observed the formation and mutually entwined motions of a massive binary star system.

Artist Impression of salt in protoplanetary disk
Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
January 31, 2019 at 11:56 am | News Release

ALMA discovered ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive young star.

Artist's conception of a gamma ray burst
Astronomers Study Mysterious New Type of Cosmic Blast
January 10, 2019 at 7:10 pm | News Release

Astronomers have studied a perplexing cosmic blast with a worldwide collection of telescopes, including ALMA and the VLA, but still are not sure exactly what it is.

Galaxies in PHANGS-ALMA Survey
What 100,000 Star Factories in 74 Galaxies Tell Us about Star Formation across the Universe
January 9, 2019 at 2:00 pm | News Release

ALMA is revealing new insights into the relationship between star-forming clouds and their host galaxies.

Artist impression of a supermassive black hole
Tale As Old As Time
January 7, 2019 at 10:27 am | News Feature

Using data from ALMA, a team of astronomers studied the growth and evolution of bubbles of hot plasma produced by active quasar HE 0515-4414. The bubble was analyzed by observing its effect on light from the cosmic microwave background. It is the first time this method was used to study quasar dynamics.

Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Image Release: ALMA Gives Passing Comet Its Close-up
December 20, 2018 at 9:00 am | News Release

As comet 46P/Wirtanen neared Earth on December 2, astronomers using ALMA took a remarkably close look at its innermost regions.

Fragmenting Disk Gives Birth to Binary Star ‘Odd Couple’
Fragmenting Disk Gives Birth to Binary Star ‘Odd Couple’
December 13, 2018 at 10:57 am | News Release

ALMA has detected a star in a binary system that may have formed like a planet.

ALMA images of protoplanetary disks
The Epoch of Planet Formation, Times Twenty
December 12, 2018 at 9:00 am | News Release

ALMA has conducted a survey of protoplanetary disks, the planet-forming dust belts around young stars.

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