An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), acts as a kind ...

Related: Facts about Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole The researchers used ALMA to track molecules, using them as "tracers" for various processes happening in the CMZ's ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery near the center of our Milky Way galaxy—long, thin “space tornadoes” made of ...

Slim filaments seen in the CMZ of the Milky Way around the supermassive black hole Sgr A* by the ALMA telescope. | Credit: Yang et al. Astronomers don't currently know for sure how these thin ...