An international team of astronomers that includes Texas A&M University’s Benjamin Boizelle and Jonelle Walsh has obtained the clearest view to date of cold gas rotation around a supermassive black hole. Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — a huge, highly sophisticated radio telescope array situated at an altitude of […]
A team of astronomers that includes Texas A&M University professor Lucas Macri and recent Texas A&M astronomy Ph.D. graduate Wenlong Yuan has used new data from the Hubble Space Telescope to make the best-ever measurement of the expansion rate of the universe, with a total uncertainty of only 1.9 percent. The team’s measurement, detailed in a recent […]
The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) — along with its international partners including Texas A&M University — today announced the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s enclosure on its site at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Artist’s rendering of an aerial view […]
Recently, the CDF and DZero collaborations completed an intense effort to combine their asymmetry measurements, carefully taking into account the statistical relationships among them. In addition to producing more precise results, they were able to reconcile the differences among the measurements as well as with updated theoretical predictions. The final set of asymmetry results was […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas A&M University’s Dr. Jennifer Marshall, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will be presenting a colloquium Tuesday (Oct. 17) on this result from the perspective of both the Dark Energy Survey, in which Texas A&M is an institutional partner, and general astronomy. Marshall’s talk, which will be live streamed at https://ttvn.tamus.edu/, is […]
For more than a decade, Texas A&M University high energy physicist Rupak Mahapatra has been making the devices that make detection of the particles believed to be behind dark matter and therefore nearly a quarter of the universe possible. Mahapatra has been instrumental in positioning the international Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment at Soudan, […]