Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old

//Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old

Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old

A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Dragan Salak at Hokkaido University, Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto at the University of Tsukuba, and Professor Akio Inoue at Waseda University, has discovered the first evidence of suppression of star formation driven by an outflow of molecular gas in a quasar-host galaxy in the early Universe. Their findings, based on observations they made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in Chile, were published in The Astrophysical Journal (Molecular Outflow in the Reionization-epoch Quasar J2054-0005 Revealed by OH 119 μm Observations, Dragan Salak et al, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 962, DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0df5)

Read here the ALMA press release.

Image: © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); Artist’s impression of an outflow of molecular gas from the quasar J2054-0005.

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