Here’s how it works. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy ...
New research from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovers fast-moving knots in black hole jets, highlighting differences in ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images ...
There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...
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This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...
Most of the black holes that scientists have detected appear to be part of a pair called a binary system. These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star ...
It was recently identified by members of the Einstein Probe team and confirmed by the Swift team as the seventh-known example of a Be/White Dwarf X-ray binary. Be/White Dwarf binaries are binary ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using NASA's space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope ...
Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy features dotting a jet of energy spit out by a nearby black hole. Puzzlingly, the "knots ...