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Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action

May 22, 2024

Lee Mohon

A team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are pointing now and where they were aimed in the past, as reported in our latest press release. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Radio Astronomical Observatory’s (NRAO) Very…
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NASA’s Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting

May 9, 2024

Lee Mohon

These images show evidence for an exhaust vent attached to a chimney releasing hot gas from a region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, as reported in our latest press release. In the main image of this graphic, X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) have been combined with radio data from the MeerKAT telescope (red). Previously, astronomers had…
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How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes

May 7, 2024

Ashley Balzer

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of “featherweight” black holes that has so far eluded detection. Today, black holes form either when a massive star collapses…
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X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light

May 2, 2024

Ashley Balzer

Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of galaxies. Studying these structures, collectively called ORCs (odd radio circles), in a different kind of light offered scientists a chance to probe everything from supersonic shock…
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NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

March 21, 2024

Lee Mohon

This image shows a quasar, a rapidly growing supermassive black hole, which is not achieving what astronomers would expect from it, as reported in our latest press release. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and radio data from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky’s Very Large Array (red) reveal some of the evidence for this quasar’s disappointing impact on its…
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NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

January 17, 2024

Ashley Balzer

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore what exists between looping tendrils of stars that are pulled…
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Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards

January 17, 2024

steve sabia

Researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like surfboards and pool noodles – and are rarely round, like volleyballs or frisbees. “Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions,” explained lead author…
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Telescopes Illuminate ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’

December 19, 2023

Lee Mohon

This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in…
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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

November 14, 2023

Ashley Balzer

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before. “Roman will work in tandem with NASA observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, which are designed to zoom in on…
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First Science Images Released From ESA Mission With NASA Contributions

November 7, 2023

Naomi Hartono

The new images from the Euclid mission include a cluster of thousands of distant galaxies, demonstrating the spacecraft’s unique abilities. The Euclid mission, which will investigate the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, released its first five science images Tuesday, Nov. 7 The observatory, led by ESA (European Space Agency) with NASA contributions, is…
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Category: Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action

NASA’s Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting

How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes

X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards

Telescopes Illuminate ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

First Science Images Released From ESA Mission With NASA Contributions

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