SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Chandra X-Ray Observatory Scattered X-rays from space: Turning noise into signal NuSTAR sees X-rays from astronomical objects it's not pointed at, so, bonus. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Over a dozen voracious supermassive black holes seen in a distant galaxy protocluster Supermassive black holes get an early start in galaxy clusters. By Phil Plait | 9 months ago How two galaxies got the gift of a black hole So that's how some galaxies got their black holes... By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago Two monster black holes roar, carve out enormous cavities around them Huge holes in a galaxy blown out by huge black holes. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago So this is what really happens during the most epic galactic crashes What did merging galaxies go through through between the first and last phase? Now we know, and it's gnarly. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago Wait...is that the first planet we’re seeing outside of our galaxy? Somewhere in the galaxy Messier 51, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory saw what might be a planet. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago A supermassive black hole that can't stop erupting By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Baby stars throw big tantrums. Very, very big tantrums. And they do it a lot. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The first lone neutron star ever seen outside the Milky Way By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Incredible image: Gorgeous magnetic chaos in the galactic center By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Load More
Scattered X-rays from space: Turning noise into signal NuSTAR sees X-rays from astronomical objects it's not pointed at, so, bonus. By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Over a dozen voracious supermassive black holes seen in a distant galaxy protocluster Supermassive black holes get an early start in galaxy clusters. By Phil Plait | 9 months ago
How two galaxies got the gift of a black hole So that's how some galaxies got their black holes... By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
Two monster black holes roar, carve out enormous cavities around them Huge holes in a galaxy blown out by huge black holes. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
So this is what really happens during the most epic galactic crashes What did merging galaxies go through through between the first and last phase? Now we know, and it's gnarly. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
Wait...is that the first planet we’re seeing outside of our galaxy? Somewhere in the galaxy Messier 51, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory saw what might be a planet. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
Baby stars throw big tantrums. Very, very big tantrums. And they do it a lot. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago