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More than Meets the Eye: Complete Imaging of Cluster Collision
An international team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, has captured a snapshot of a giant cosmic collision. This composite image was created using radio, X-ray, and optical data collected with the MUSTANG-2 receiver on the GBT, the European Science Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton Satellite, and…
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The Future of Multi-Messenger Astronomy is in the Green Bank Observatory’s New Data Archive
A new project funded by the National Science Foundation at the Green Bank Observatory will have a big impact on the astronomy community.
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Green Bank Observatory’s link to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
Three scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for their study of the super massive black hole that sits at the center of our galaxy. This black hole, Sagittarius A*, as it’s known, was first discovered as a bright radio object in 1974 at the Green Bank Observatory.
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NSF Telescopes Image M87’s Supermassive Black Hole and Massive Jet Together for the First Time
Observations also revealed that the supermassive black hole’s ring is bigger than imagined Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What’s more, the observations have revealed that the…
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Green Bank Telescope Data a part of Breakthrough Listen’s Most Comprehensive Search to Date
Reanalysis of Breakthrough Listen Data to Include Other Stellar Objects in the Field Yields Most Comprehensive SETI Search to Date Independent team combines existing radio telescope data with new catalogs to search over 200 times more stars than before
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Blowing in the wind: fast molecular clouds discovered streaming out from the Galactic Center
Interesting things are happening in the center of the Milky Way, and scientists using radio telescopes on three continents have been making discoveries about a high energy wind that is blasting out of our galaxy.