Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...
The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...
New NASA-backed research using the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests many small galaxies may lack supermassive black holes, ...
Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...
"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...
A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...
What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...
Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...