NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...
Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...
NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black ...
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X ...
Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...
A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...
The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...