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NASA’s Webb delivers unprecedented look into heart of Circinus galaxy

Press release on JWST interferometric imaging of the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of the Circinus galaxy (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2026, Nature Communications, 17, 42).

NASA/STScI ESA

Magnetic superhighways discovered in a starburst galaxy’s winds

Press release on the magnetic fields of the dusty nuclei and molecular outflows of Arp 220 (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2026, ApJL, 996, L27).

NRAO ALMA IEEC

Visions of galaxies

A personal and professional interview in the Stanford Report.

Stanford Report

How magnetic fields help feed a supermassive black hole

Press release on SALSA II: a magnetically driven flow in the starburst ring of NGC 1097 (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2021, ApJ, 923, 150).

Press release

Galactic merger warps magnetic fields

Press release on the magnetic field of the warped molecular disk of Centaurus A (Lopez-Rodriguez 2021, Nature Astronomy, 5, 604). Nature Astronomy best cover of 2021.

Press release APOD · 2021 Apr 21 Nature Astronomy cover

Magnetic ‘highway’ channels material out of the Cigar galaxy

Press release on the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the galactic outflow of M82 (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2021, ApJ, 914, 24).

Press release

Magnetic chaos hidden within the Whirlpool galaxy

Press release on the magnetic field in the multiphase interstellar medium of M51 (Borlaff et al. 2021, ApJ, 921, 128).

Press release APOD · 2021 Jan 20

How to shape a spiral galaxy

Press release on SOFIA/HAWC+ tracing the magnetic fields in NGC 1068 (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2020, ApJ, 888, 66).

NASA APOD · 2019 Dec 16

The central magnetic field of the Cigar galaxy

SOFIA far-infrared imaging polarimetry of M82 and NGC 253: exploring the supergalactic wind (Jones, Dowell, Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2019, ApJ, 870, 9).

APOD · 2019 Mar 11

Magnetic fields may be the key to black hole activity

Press release on the highly polarized dusty emission core of Cygnus A (Lopez-Rodriguez et al. 2018, ApJ, 861, L23).

NASA

The core of the Milky Way unveiled in the clearest infrared image yet

Article on the magnetic field in the central parsec of the Galaxy (Roche et al. 2018, MNRAS, 476, 235).

Astronomy Magazine

SOFIA finds cool dust around energetic active black holes

Press release on the dusty torus of Seyfert galaxies with SOFIA/FORCAST photometry (Fuller et al. 2016, MNRAS, 462, 2618).

NASA

AAS 231 press conference: magnetic fields in galaxies

Press conference on the first-light polarimetric observations of galaxies with HAWC+ (January 2018).

AAS press photos