Artist’s impression of black hole jets. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others…
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This selection of images of different kinds of light from various missions and telescopes have been combined to better understand the universe. Each composite image…
TXS 0128+554, outlined in red here, is an elliptical galaxy located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Not…
Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ of Texas at Arlington/M. Millard et al. Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from…
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…
The double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from…
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery…
A composite view of the Abell 2384 system, comprising two galaxy clusters located 1.2 billion light years from Earth. A new study, based on data…
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…
A supermassive black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster located about 240 million light-years from Earth. The main image is about 550,000 light-years across and…
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…
This extremely powerful eruption occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is located about 390 million light-years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures…
This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are classified as G stars; stars less massive and cooler…
This new multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) with visible light from the Hubble Space…
This image contains a black hole that is triggering star formation across the longest distance ever seen. As hot gas swirls around the black hole,…
Accretion of gas onto a stellar black hole from its blue companion star, through a truncated accretion disk (Artist impression). Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium,…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Schellenberger et al.; Optical:SDSS Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at…
Cassiopeia A in X-ray and optical light. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO A new movie of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant shows how it has evolved over more…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Schellenberger et al.; Optical: SDSS A mega-merger of four galaxy clusters in Abell 1758 has been observed by Chandra and other telescopes. Abell…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIKEN & GSFC/T. Sato et al; Optical: DSS In 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was among those who noticed a new bright object…