Yearly Archives: 2026

Using ALMA, astronomers uncovered "Shadow Blaster" - a compact, dust-obscured starburst galaxy located within the localization region of the IceCube neutrino event IC 210922A. Thanks to gravitational lensing, researchers revealed an intense, gas-rich core where extreme star formation could generate the conditions needed to produce high-energy neutrinos. While the association is not yet confirmed, the [...]

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have uncovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas in the distant galaxy REBELS-25, seen just 700 million years after the Big Bang (z = 7.31). The observations reveal around 100 billion solar masses of star-forming fuel, making [...]

The NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) prototype antenna has achieved “first light,” successfully conducting its first astronomical observations independently and together with the NSF Very Large Array in New Mexico. This milestone marks the transition from construction to scientific testing for the prototype, which is validating the [...]

An international team led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) has observed unusual flickering in the pulsar PSR B1508+55, revealing structured, filament-like gas in the interstellar medium about 430 light-years from Earth. Using the Effelsberg radio telescope in Germany and FAST in China, the researchers found that the pulsar’s signal is stretched [...]