UMD Astronomers Discover a New Mid-size Black Hole in NGC 1313
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
Using RXTE satellite data, researchers have revealed a dozen instances where X-ray signals from active galaxies dimmed as a result of a cloud of gas…
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
Over the period of roughly one month, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observed some 400 thermonuclear explosions on the surface of the neutron star…
A team of researchers has detected all phases of thermonuclear burning in a neutron star located close to the center of the galaxy in the…
Researchers targeted 42 nearby active galaxies and used data from the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite to show…
NASA’s RXTE has made many important scientific observations over its 16-year history and on January 4th, 2012 it sent its last observation to the ground…