Cosmic ‘Ghost’ Discovered: "Evidence of a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion supernovas."
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory located a cosmic “ghost” that scientists think is evidence of a huge eruption produced by a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion...
Image of the Day: The Weird Beauty of the Cone Nebula (Weekend Feature)
The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright...
Image of the Day: A Massive Jet of Color from a Black Hole 100,000 Light Years Long
A new false-colored image from NASA’s Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that has been shot out from...
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Gigantic "Super-Volcano" Observed in Massive Elliptical Galaxy
The image below shows the eruption of a galactic “super-volcano” in the massive galaxy M87 (left), as observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA)....
Swarm of Black Holes & Neutron Stars Orbiting the Supermassive Monster at Milky Way’s Core
A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, according to results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This would...
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