#submillimeter array
UH: Images captured with Submillimeter Array on Maunakea illuminate birth of planetary systems
An observatory on Maunakea played a pivotal role in a groundbreaking study that sheds light on the birth and evolution of planetary systems. Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), an astronomer from the University of Hawaiʻi helped capture crystal-clear images of exocomet belts—regions around stars where icy and rocky objects called exocomets are found.
Hawaiʻi telescope helps reveal first image of Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
The Submillimeter Array on the summit of Maunakea was one of eight telescopes around the world to image the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Pōwehi: Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
Two Hawai`i-based telescopes, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, operated by the East Asian Observatory, and the Submillimeter Array, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, have once again combined efforts with the global network of telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope.
