X-Ray Astronomy
New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A
[/caption] The mysterious galaxy Centaurus A is a great place to study the extreme processes that occur near super-massive black…
Speca – An Intriguing Look Into The Beginning Of A Black Hole Jet
[/caption] Its name is SPECA - a Spiral-host Episodic radio galaxy tracing Cluster Accretion. That's certainly a mouthful of words…
X-rays Reveal a Stellar-Mass Black Hole in Andromeda
[/caption] An ultraluminous x-ray source (ULX) previously spotted in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy by NASA's Chandra observatory has now been revealed…
Chandra Spots a Black Hole’s High-Speed Hurricane
[/caption] Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported record-breaking wind speeds coming from a stellar-mass black hole. The "wind", a high-speed…
Young Star Cluster In Disintegrated Galaxy Reveals First-Ever Intermediate Mass Black Hole
[/caption] Score another first for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! Along with observations taken with the Swift X-ray telescope, a team…
Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…
[/caption] It's a millisecond pulsar... a rapidly rotating neutron star and it's about to reach the end of its mass…
Supernova G350 Kicks Up Some X-Ray Dust
[/caption] Located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of our galaxy, a newly photographed supernova remnant…
NASA’s New Eyes in the Sky
[/caption] On March 14, NASA will launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR. This is the first time a…
The Eagle Nebula as You’ve Never Seen it Before
[/caption] Here's a stunning new look deep inside the iconic "Pillars of Creation." As opposed to the famous Hubble Space…
Dodging Black Hole Bullets
[/caption] In mid-2009 a binary star system cataloged as H H1743–322 shot off something very unusual. Poised about 28,000 light…