Ripped Apart: A Gigantic Black Hole Destroys a Massive Star
Astronomers uncover details of a massive star, ASASSN-14li, devoured by a black hole, challenging previous theories and hinting at new methods for cosmic exploration. Researchers…
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Mysterious ASASSN-14li: Massive Star Obliterated by a Giant Black Hole
A giant black hole 290 million light-years away destroyed a large star and threw its pieces into space. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton…
Beautiful Cosmic Creature Accelerates Particles From Head
The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton spacecraft has X-rayed this beautiful cosmic creature, known as the Manatee Nebula, pinpointing the location of unusual particle acceleration in…
Unusual X-Ray Activity Detected As Object Is Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object — either a lightweight…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
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…
Mysterious “Lonely Cloud” Bigger Than Milky Way Found in a Galaxy “No-Man’s Land”
A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)…
Light Echo From Behind a Black Hole Confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side….
Cause of Jupiter’s X-Ray Aurora Revealed – Mystery Has Puzzled Scientists for 40 Years
An international research team led by YAO Zhonghua from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has explained the…
40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s Strange X-Ray Flares Uncovered
A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered. Planetary astronomers combined measurements taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter,…
Physicists May Have Found Dark Matter: X-rays Surrounding “Magnificent 7” May Be Traces of Theorized Particle
Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around a group of neutron stars. A new study, led by…
Cosmic Neon Lights: Strange New Type of Star Revealed in X-ray Light
This image shows a new type of star that has never been seen before in X-ray light. This strange star formed after two white dwarfs…
XMM-Newton Space Observatory Spies Youngest Baby Pulsar Ever Discovered
An observation campaign led by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory reveals the youngest pulsar ever seen – the remnant of a once-massive star – that is…
A Remarkable Cosmic Baby Is Discovered – And It’s Brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of…
“Amazing!” – Black Hole’s Heart Still Beating
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being observed. X-ray satellite observations spotted…
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 tell…
Hubble Finds “Missing Link” Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star That Passed Too Close [Video]
High-resolution imaging reveals black hole’s hideout in extra-galactic star cluster. Like detectives carefully building a case, astronomers gathered evidence and eliminated suspects until they found…
Evidence of Elusive “Missing Link” in Black Hole Evolution Found by Hubble Space Telescope
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this…