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Chandra Image May Rival July 4th Fireworks
While Fourth of July festivities tonight may bring brilliant colors blazing across the night sky, only 23 million light-years away…
Intriguing X-Ray Signal Might be Dark Matter Candidate
Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in…
Amazing New X-Ray Image of the Whirlpool Galaxy Shows it is Dotted with Black Holes
In any galaxy there are hundreds of X-ray binaries: systems consisting of a black hole capturing and heating material from…
Galaxy Violence Revealed! Cosmic Crash Shows Cluster Crunch
Shock waves! Fast-moving particles! Magnetic fields! This image has it all. Behold the merging galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745 about five billion…
Jellyfish-Like Galaxy Appears To Be Shedding All Over Space
Is that a tractor beam trying to latch on to galaxy ESO 137-001? While the bold blue stripe in the…
Pushy Black Holes Stop Elliptical Galaxies From Forming Stars
Contradicting past theories, cold gas has been found in abundance in some elliptical galaxies -- showing that there must be…
Runaway Pulsar Produces Longest Jet Trail Ever Observed
One of the fastest-moving pulsars ever observed is spewing out a record-breaking jet of high-energy particles that stretches 37 light…
New Findings from NuSTAR: A New X-Ray View of the “Hand of God” and More
One star player in this week’s findings out of the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society has been the…
Chandra’s Verdict on the Demise of a Star: “Death by Black Hole”
This week, astronomers announced the detection of a rare event, a star being torn to shreds by a massive black…
Best Evidence Yet for a High-Energy Jet Emanating from the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Jets of high energy particles emanating from a black hole have been detected plenty of times before, but in other…