UCI-led astronomers capitalize on early access to James Webb Space Telescope data
Advanced instruments aid in development of coherent picture of extragalactic nucleus
November 14, 2022
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UCI astronomers analyze second-most distant quasar
Using three observatories on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered the second-most distant quasar ever found. As part of an international effort to confirm and study the newly discovered object, a team at UCI and UC Santa Barbara used the Keck II 10-meter telescope to perform a spectroscopic analysis. The […]
June 25, 2020
Astronomers from UCI and Texas A&M peer into distant black hole’s ‘sphere of influence’
Astronomers at UCI and Texas A&M University have obtained the most detailed view yet of an inner cold gas disk around a distant supermassive black hole. Studying the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 3258 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array – a powerful radio telescope array in the high desert of northern Chile – the scientists […]
August 07, 2019
UCI astronomers determine precise mass of a giant black hole
Data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array made measurement possible
May 05, 2016