ALMA Astronomy News

At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the ALMA observatory offices in Santiago, Chile, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

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At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the ALMA observatory offices in Santiago, Chile, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located in northern Chile. ALMA is an international partnership of ESO (Europe), NSF (U.S) and NINS (Japan) together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile We love the Cosmos!