The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Astronomers are using the Chandra X-Ray observatory, a powerful, space-based telescope, to examine the first black holes. These black holes appeared in the first one to two billion years after the ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton indicate that remnants of the destroyed plane... A brief yet intense X-ray flash, XRT 200515, was detected in NASA's Chandra ...

The Perseus and Centaurus Clusters showed clear signs of cold gas filaments condensing and flowing back into the black hole’s gravitational pull. Some of the cooled gas avoids the black hole and ...