Here’s What Happens When a Supermassive Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job [Video]
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job, Unleashing a Remarkable Torrent of Star Formation
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
Irregular Outbursts From a Double Star System – Energy Equivalent to 10 Million Trillion Hydrogen Bombs
For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth. V745 Sco…
First Detection of X-Rays From a Newborn Star – Clues to Our Sun’s Earliest Phase of Evolution
Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra…
Three Million Light-Year Long Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters Warped by Supermassive Black Hole
A new study, based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories, sheds new light on a three million light-year long bridge of…
Star Captured by Supermassive Black Hole’s Gravity – And Survives!
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to…
“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…
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…