NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Shows Merging Galaxies Have Enshrouded Black Holes
Using NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, a team of astronomers reveals that in the late stages of galaxy mergers, so much gas and dust falls toward a…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, a team of astronomers reveals that in the late stages of galaxy mergers, so much gas and dust falls toward a…
A wave of hot gas spanning 200,000 light-years is rolling through the Perseus galaxy cluster. Combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with radio observations…
Astronomers reveal evidence of repeated bursts, or eruptions, from a black hole at the center of a large elliptical galaxy located within the core of…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays in the Chandra Deep Field-South data. The mysterious X-ray source became 1,000 times brighter…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), a team of astronomers reveals evidence for a…
This composite image shows Supernova 1987A, one of the brightest supernovae detected since the invention of the telescope. Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of…
By using data from telescopes, astronomers — and the public — can explore SN 1987A like never before. Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of…
A trio of X-ray observatories has captured a remarkable event in their data: a decade-long binge by a black hole almost two billion light years…
NASA’s NuSTAR satellite reveals new clues to why supernova SN 2014C dramatically changed in appearance over the course of a year. “We’re made of star…
New X-ray images from Chandra have shown distinctly different shapes for the structures around two pulsars. By studying the shape and orientation of these structures,…
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…
An unparalleled image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning…
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….
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…
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…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has modeled the detailed shape of the pulsar wind nebula created by PSR B0355+54. Neutron…
Using data from both Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers discovered two flaring objects in two different galaxies. These objects brighten in X-rays by a factor of…
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…