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  • Black-hole image shedding light on Milky Way mysteries

    May 26, 2022 10:15 am by NatureIllinois in the News
    The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile is one of the observatories in the Event Horizon Telescope network. Credit: Babak Tafreshi/Science Photo Library

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    • The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile is one of the observatories in the Event Horizon Telescope network. Credit: Babak Tafreshi/Science Photo Library

    Nature (May 25) Scientists want to confirm the clockwise rotation of an accretion disk they've observed. 'The new observations...may have enough information...if we can make a movie and see structures rotating,' says U of I's Charles Gammie.