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And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...
Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...
Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...
NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have observed black holes causing the most powerful space explosions ever recorded, revealing previously hidden black holes.
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...
“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...