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NASA released stunning new space images by combining the visual powers of the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory
New NASA images of two galaxies, a star cluster, and a nebula use X-ray technology to enhance glimp…
Jacob Zinkula
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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Blackhole In The Milky Way
The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole f…
Dina Spector
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NASA's new X-ray space telescope snapped its first image: a stunning exploding star
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will study black holes and exploded stars. Its fir…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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There's more to this beautiful space image than meets the eye
In order to study objects in different wavelengths, astronomers convert the non-visible parts of th…
Jessica Orwig
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This Neutron Star Spins Faster Than A Helicopter Rotor
As the pulsar whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles that race along the pulsar's ro…
Randy Astaiza
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6 images that show how violent and destructive the universe can be
Stellar corpses called neutron stars, leftover from these explosions, tear anything that gets too c…
Ali Sundermier
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Supermassive black hole is eating meals worth four Moons thrice a day
In fact, the phenomenon was so unprecedented that scientists had to coin a new phrase for it —…
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Check Out These Mind-Blowing New Images From NASA
With that in mind, check out the level of activity at the galaxy's center in all of the images belo…
Jessica Orwig
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27 stunning photos of the cosmos taken this year
This has also been a year of photographic innovation. Researchers stitched together thousands of Hu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dana Va…
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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA released an audio clip of a black hole, and it's pretty spooky
Black holes push waves of pressure through the galaxies around them. It can sound like a wailing al…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Pune telescope detected an explosion five times bigger than the Big Bang 390 million light years from Earth
The other telescopes used for the discovery included NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Euro…
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A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic
As the gas gets pulled in, it orbits around the black hole, forming a disc. The closer the gas gets…
Jessica Orwig
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The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy suddenly lit up brighter than scientists had ever seen, and nobody knows why
In black holes, matter gets packed into a tiny space, giving them extremely powerful gravity - Sgr …