Astronomers Spy Quartet of Enormous Cavities From Giant Black Holes
Four cavities in the hot gas of a single galaxy cluster have been found. Astronomers found this quartet of X-ray cavities in the cluster located…
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Four cavities in the hot gas of a single galaxy cluster have been found. Astronomers found this quartet of X-ray cavities in the cluster located…
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object — either a lightweight…
A white dwarf is blasting a companion object, which is either a low-mass star or a planet. The companion is likely receiving a barrage of…
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescopes, astronomers have made an important step in the quest to find a planet outside of the…
Until now, astronomers have found all other known exoplanets and exoplanet candidates in the Milky Way galaxy, almost all less than about 3,000 light-years from…
The supernova remnant G344.7-0.1 is across the Milky Way about 19,600 light years from Earth. It belongs to a class of supernovas called “Type Ia”…
Astronomers have announced evidence for a possible planet in another galaxy. This “exoplanet” would be much farther away than any of the thousands of others…
Since 2020, a “sonification” project has transformed astronomical data from some of the world’s most powerful telescopes into sound. Three new objects — a star-forming…
By taking advantage of a natural lens in space, astronomers have captured an unprecedented look at X-rays from a black hole system in the early…
Astronomers have used an “X-ray magnifying glass” to study a black hole system in the early Universe. The amplification and magnification of light by an…
A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The X-ray images…
Astronomers spotted an unusual set of rings in X-rays around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes, a…
Abell 1775 is a system where a smaller galaxy cluster has plowed into a larger one. Using X-rays from Chandra and data from other telescopes…
The long relationships between stars and the planets around them — including the Sun and the Earth — may be even more complex than previously…
Watch as the blast wave from an exploded star moves at nearly 9 million miles per hour. Astronomers captured this movement by combining data spanning…
How do flares, or outbursts, from young stars affect planets that orbit around them? The largest study of star-forming regions in X-rays using NASA’s Chandra…
Scientists have coordinated observations of many of the world’s most powerful telescopes of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. In April 2019, the…
A new panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of Milky Way. This new survey builds on previous Chandra observations, stitching…