
NASA: Merging Galaxies Has Resulted In Misconception About Black Holes
Black holes get a bad rap in popular culture for swallowing everything in their environments. […]
Black holes get a bad rap in popular culture for swallowing everything in their environments. […]
The intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, they were detected by NASA’s Swift satellite, which notified astronomers around the world. […]
As research subjects, black holes have never been more luminous.
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In 2013, astronomers announced they had discovered a magnetar exceptionally close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way using a suite of space-borne telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. […]
A bright, long duration flare may be the first recorded event of a black hole destroying a star in a dwarf galaxy and the evidence comes from two independent studies using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. […]
Hmmm….why does it feel like Saturn is missing something in this image? […]
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is probing a mysterious black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. […]
NASA’s little-known Swift spacecraft continues to amaze astronomers with its ability to detect and locate gamma-ray bursts. […]
NASA’s NuSTAR mission will use X-ray technology to explore Black Holes in the universe. […]