Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...
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, ...
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...
Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...
A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy ...