Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

The X-ray telescope XRISM, operated jointly by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, created the ... a suspected black hole and a massive star, are so close together that they ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have employed NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ... “We think that a gas cloud got around the black holes and they cause oscillating patterns of the ...

AT 2021hdr is a binary supermassive black hole (BSMBH) system in the center of a galaxy 1 billion light-years away, in the Cygnus constellation. In 2021, researchers observing it using NASA’s Zwicky ...

13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes ... how a star that ...

NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A black hole’s destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star forms a debris disk that encounters a second star, ...

Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ventures too close—be it star, planet, or spacecraft—will be stretched and ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in the Centaurus A galaxy, moving at an unprecedented 94% the speed of light.

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered ... Then they considered whether a tidal disruption event — the destruction of a star that wandered too close ...

Hubble probes Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies: This is an artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar emits exceptionally large amounts of energy ...

Among these phenomena are black holes—cosmetic entities with such strong gravitational pulls that nothing, not even light, can escape them. Recently, astronomers using NASA’s cutting-edge technology ...