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,…
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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…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/George Mason Univ./R. Pfeifle et al.; Optical: SDSS & NASA/STScI Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three…
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded black hole, which may have existed only 850 million years…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is commemorating its 20th anniversary with an assembly of new images. These images represent the breadth of Chandra’s exploration, demonstrating the…
This still image is a single frame from an immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition visualization that allows viewers to view the center of our Galaxy as if…
A study using Chandra, XMM-Newton and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data suggests that dark energy may have varied over cosmic time. This artist’s illustration…
The Abell 2597 galaxy cluster shows the first clear evidence for the simultaneous inward and outward flow of gas being driven by a supermassive black…
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A…