This artist’s illustration shows a cross-section of the supermassive black hole and surrounding material in the center of our galaxy. The black sphere in the…
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This artist’s illustration shows a cross-section of the supermassive black hole and surrounding material in the center of our galaxy. The black sphere in the…
This deep dataset from Chandra of the remains of a supernova known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B) reveals evidence for more than one…
This new image of supernova remnant SN 1006 combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The red, green, and…
The “Christmas Tree Cluster,” NGC 2264, is a cluster of young stars in the Milky Way, about 2,500 light-years from Earth. This composite image, enhanced…
Using NASA’s Chandra and Webb telescopes, astronomers have discovered an ancient, massive black hole, providing clues about the origins of the universe’s first supermassive black…
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever observed in X-rays, located in galaxy UHZ1, over 13 billion light-years away. Using data from the…
By combining data from Chandra and IXPE, astronomers are learning more about how a pulsar is injecting particles into space and shaping its environment. The…
Evidence for two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses has been found with Chandra. The two pairs are shown in…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected two pairs of supermassive black holes on collision courses in dwarf galaxies, which is the first evidence of such…
An image from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of the Vela pulsar wind nebula. The colors represent different X-ray intensities, with the brightest…
Zeta Ophiuchi was once in close orbit with another star, before being ejected when this companion was destroyed in a supernova explosion. Infrared data from…
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical…
This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at…
As part of NASA’s Black Hole Week, two new sonifications of well-known black holes have been released. Two new sonifications of well-known black holes have…
These four galaxies are part of a large survey of more than 100 galaxies conducted by Chandra that looked for evidence of growing black holes.…
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. This artist’s animation shows some…
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center To look for black holes around the “Spiderweb” galaxy, astronomers observed for over…
J2030 X-Ray and Optical. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries; Optical: NSF/AURA/Gemini Consortium A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./A. Hajela et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…