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New Movie of a Neutron Star Looks Eerily Like the Phantom of the Opera
This incredible new movie of the Vela pulsar has the unnerving appearance of the Phantom of the Opera – wearing…
Combining Light to Reveal Monster Black Holes
NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers…
Astronomers Find Ultimate Oxymoron: A Small Supermassive Black Hole
There's jumbo shrimp and accurate rumors; now there's even a mini supermassive black hole. Astronomers have identified the smallest supermassive…
Blowing a Super-duper Celestial Bubble
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Astronomers Discover Milky Way’s Hot Halo
Artist's illustration of a hot gas halo enveloping the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A.Gupta et al.) Our…
The Unusually Colossal Kepler Supernova
A composite image of Chandra X-ray data shows a rainbow of reds, yellows, green, blue and purple, from lower to…
Pulsar Sets New Speed Record
A pulsar may have been spotted racing through space at over 6 million miles per hour (9.65 million km/h), setting…
Black Hole Growth Out of Whack in Some Galaxies
[/caption] From a Chandra press release: New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes…
Are Rogue Black Holes Wandering the Universe?
Talk about a tough neighborhood! Even black holes aren’t welcome in galaxy CID-42, located about 4 billion light-years away from…
Chandra Witnesses Big Blast from an Old Black Hole
[/caption] Astronomers keeping an eye out for a supernova explosion in the nearby galaxy M83 instead witnessed a prodigious blast…