Dense Molecular Clouds in the Center of Milky Way are Unable to Form Stars
13 September, 2021
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) allowed astronomers to map in exquisite detail the ring of dense molecular gas rotating around the supermassive black hole in Sgr A* at the center of our galaxy. In that ring, also known as a circumnuclear disk, they found thousands of dense gas clumps but, surprisingly, no...