Astronomers Discover a Cosmic Particle Accelerator in Abell 3411 and 3412
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen…
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New NASA Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
A new NASA mission will allow astronomers to explore the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar…
Hubble Reveals a Black Hole Ripping Apart a Passing Star
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal a rapidly spinning black hole ripping apart a passing star that came too close. An extraordinarily brilliant point…
Distant Galaxy SPT 0346-52 Churning Out Stars at Remarkable Rate
Using several telescopes including Chandra, astronomers have shown that a galaxy in the early Universe called SPT0346-52 is undergoing an extraordinary burst of star formation….
UVES Instrument Views Fingerprint of the Early Universe
The UVES instrument shows the light from quasar HE0940-1050 after it has traveled through the intergalactic medium. The most massive galaxies in the Universe host…
NASA’s Chandra Views a Stellar Circle of Life, Cygnus X-3
A newly published study reveals that the supernova explosion that formed either the black hole or neutron star in Cygnus X-3 kicked the binary system…
NASA’s SOFIA Set To Study New Frontiers in the Solar System and Beyond
NASA’s SOFIA flying Observatory set to study planets, comets and asteroids orbiting other stars and supermassive black holes. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA,…
Astronomers Explain Mysterious Dimming of Markarian 1018
By combining data from Chandra, VLT, and several other telescopes, astronomers reveal that the dimming of Markarian 1018 arises from the black hole at the…
Astronomers Discover a”Nearly Naked” Supermassive Black Hole
Using the Very Long Baseline Array a team of astronomers has discovered the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving…
Chandra Telescope Reveals Evidence for a “Wandering” Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered a “wandering” black hole in the outer regions of a galaxy about 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. Evidence suggests this newly discovered…
Researchers Measure Magnetic Fields in the Vicinity of a Black Hole
A team of researchers has measured the magnetic fields in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 1052. Two particle…
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of a Rare Change in the Behavior of a Supermassive Black Hole
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has solved the mystery of a…
Astrophysicists Show Milky Way Had a Blowout Bash 6 Million Years Ago
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the center of the Milky Way was once a very active place. The center of…
NASA Telescopes Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered…
Spitzer Provides Astronomers with a New Way to See the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole
Astronomers are using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to further explore Sagittarius A*. At the center of our Milky Way galaxy lies a cosmic beast called…
Chandra Reveals Evidence for Violent Stellar Merger
Using data from Chandra, astronomers have the strongest evidence to date that violent stellar mergers produce pencil-thin jets. This result has implications for estimating the…
Astronomers Prove the Existence of a “Gravitational Vortex” Around a Black Hole
Using data from XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, astronomers have proved the existence of a “gravitational vortex” around a black hole. This new discovery, aided by NASA’s…
Astronomers Discover Evidence of a ‘Direct-Collapse Black Hole’
A newly published study details evidence for a direct collapse black hole in the Lyman α source CR7. Astronomers Aaron Smith and Volker Bromm of…
