Supermassive black holes (SMBH) reside in the center of galaxies like the Milky Way. They are mind-bogglingly massive, ranging from…
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with an unusually regular feeding schedule. The behemoth is an active galactic…
In the coming years, NASA plans to test x-ray technology aboard the ISS as a way of creating more robust…
A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that older Sun-like stars emit less harmful X-rays, a finding…
A new study by a team of astronomers has revealed that an unexpected amount of x-ray emissions coming from Pluto,…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week we welcome Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program Participants: Michael Prokosch (Seeing…
Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in…
More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that…
NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers…
[/caption] It's a millisecond pulsar... a rapidly rotating neutron star and it's about to reach the end of its mass…