Astronomers Measure Distant Black Hole’s Spin
Using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that is located 6 billion light…
Using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that is located 6 billion light…
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy ESO 137-001. The spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 looks like a dandelion caught in…
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar that is moving between 2.5 million and 5 million miles per hour with a tail that stretches for 37 light…
Using archived data, astronomers have put together a new Chandra image of Centaurus A and new results on the black holes and neutron stars in…
Using images and spectra from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers discovered evidence of shock-heated gas moving at speeds of about 2200 kilometers per second in…
Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope shows before and after images of supernova SN 2014J, which occurred 12 million light-years away in galaxy M82. An exceptionally close stellar…
Astronomers reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. Located in the center of galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021, the black hole is 3.9 billion…
While combing through several years of Chandra data, researchers discovered a black hole destroying a star in the galaxy cluster Abell 1795. A bright, long-duration…
Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope present optical and X-ray observations of two tidally distorted, extremely low-mass white dwarfs (WDs)…
The NASA image of the day shows the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy M81. At the center of the spiral galaxy…
Using data from Chandra and the VLA, astronomers uncovered new evidence for the presence of a jet of high-energy particles blasting out of the Milky…
Using data from Chandra, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities, scientists have created new three-dimensional (3D) viewer that will allow users to see the…
This two minute NASA video details M60-UCD1, an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a mass about 200 million times that of our sun. Two-Minute Tour: An…
Released to the public for the first time, this Chandra/ESO image shows NGC 3576. A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of…
To celebrate and support American Archive Month, eight never-before-seen images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory archive have been released. Every year, October is designated as…
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…
Using Chandra’s high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
Using Chandra, Hubble, and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy that weighs more than 200 times our Sun, over half of which…