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 ...

A radio map of the Milky Way's central region taken with the MeerKAT telescope, with red boxes showing the previously unknown filamentary structures observed with the ALMA telescope. (Image credit ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the largest astronomical project in existence — astronomers were able to peel ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery near the center of our Milky Way galaxy—long, thin “space tornadoes” made of swirling gas. These strange structures were spotted by an international team of ...

Using ALMA's high resolution and sensitivity to map distinct spectral lines within the molecular clouds at the center of the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers led by Kai Yang of the ...

A radio-wave map of the Milky Way's turbulent center ... Jiao Tong University and a co-author of the paper, said in a statement. Further observations with ALMA will help the researchers determine ...