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NASA’s Great Observatories Provide a Sparkly New View of the Small Magellanic Cloud
This is just pretty! NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared…
Book Review: Your Ticket to the Universe
Every once in a while an astronomy book comes out that combines stunning high-definition images from the world's most advanced…
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…
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…
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 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…
Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole is Feasting on Asteroids
[/caption] For the past several years, the Chandra telescope has detected X-ray flares occurring about once a day from the…
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…