“Theory of Everything” Tested – NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Probes String Theory
Astronomers used Chandra to perform a test of string theory, a possible “theory of everything” that would tie all of known physics together. One of…
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The Most Powerful Black Hole Eruption Ever Seen in the Universe
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion…
Record-Breaking, Gargantuan Black Hole Eruption – Biggest Explosion Seen in the Universe
The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds…
Astronomers Discover the Best Places to Look for “Genesis II” and Intelligent Alien Life
Orange Dwarf Stars Most Likely to Host Planets To date astronomers have discovered over 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Statistically, there should be over 100…
Astronomers Build Incredible 3D Visualization of Exploded Star Using NASA’s Great Observatories [Video]
Movie Dissects the Nebula’s Intricate Nested Structure In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the…
Positive Feedback Black Hole Triggers Star Formation a Million Light Years Away
One black hole is influencing the rate of star formation in multiple galaxies and across vast distances. This is a rare example of “positive feedback”…
Surprise Discovery of Black Hole in Our Galaxy That “Should Not Even Exist”
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
Furious Rate of Star Formation Driven by a Weakened Black Hole
Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA…
Spectacular Video Shows How Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Evolved Since 2000
A new movie of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant shows how it has evolved over more than a dozen years in X-ray light. NASA’s Chandra…
Colossal Collision of Galaxy Clusters Will Form One of the Most Massive Objects in the Universe
A mega-merger of four galaxy clusters in Abell 1758 has been observed by Chandra and other telescopes. Abell 1758 contains two pairs of galaxy clusters,…
Star Dies in a Spectacular Supernova – Here’s the Clumpy and Lumpy Debris [Video]
In 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was among those who noticed a new bright object in the constellation Cassiopeia. Adding fuel to the intellectual fire…
Three Supermassive Black Holes on Extremely Rare Collision Course [Video]
Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. The unusual system was captured by several observatories, including three NASA…
Investigating the Mysterious Pops of Light Spotted by NASA Satellite
Pops of bright blue and green in this image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) show the locations of extremely bright sources of X-ray light…
Evidence of Cloaked Black Hole in Early Universe
A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a highly obscured black hole existing only 850 million years after…
NASA Releases New Images to Celebrate Chandra’s 20th Anniversary
On July 23, 1999, the Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In the two decades that…
Chandra Views Spinning Black Holes Across Cosmic Sea
A new study has revealed how fast some distant, rapidly growing supermassive black holes are spinning. The material around of one these black holes is…
Chandra Detects Coronal Mass Ejection From Distant Star
This artist’s illustration depicts a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which involves a large-scale expulsion of material, and have frequently been observed on our Sun….
Chandra Reveals Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes
X-ray observations have found copious amounts of very hot gas in galaxy clusters, and in the central regions more than was expected. While supernovae and…