Unprecedent measurements confirm galaxies idle when they run out of cold gas. New research, published in Nature and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has just answered…
The magnetic field is part of one of the four fundamental forces in nature. It plays a vital role in everyday life, from producing electricity…
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in planet formation sites with the…
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) has shown important details…
Hubble Finds Early, Massive Galaxies Running on Empty “Live fast, die young” could be the motto of six early, massive, “dead” galaxies that ran out…
Scientists connect the dots between where planets form and what they’re made of. An international collaboration of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
Analysis of unique fingerprints in light emitted from material surrounding young stars has revealed “significant reservoirs” of large organic molecules necessary to form the basis…
It is known that gas jets are ejected from a baby star, but it was not clear how the jets are formed. By observing the…
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect — streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant galaxy…
ALMA data proves that ram pressure stripping doesn’t spell an immediate end for galaxies. A new study from scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
What happens inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what happens inside a black hole’s “sphere of influence” – the innermost region…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a…
Study of nearby galaxies gives new insights into star formation. Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding the dark and violent places where…
New survey reveals that the presence of gaps in planet-forming disks is more common to higher mass stars and to the development of large, gaseous…
New observations of young stellar object Elias 2-27 confirm gravitational instabilities and planet-forming disk mass as key to formation of giant planets. A team of…
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion years ago. This is…
Study reveals that the makeup and life cycle of star-forming clouds is dependent on location. A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often surrounded by an…