The galaxy NGC 5084 similarly rotates around a supermassive black hole, but in late December of 2024, NASA discovered something strange after re-analyzing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

With concerns about the longevity of the Chandra X-ray Observatory in NASA's budget ... could blast off in the 2030s without too much development time required. These are the Probe-class missions ...

Marshall Space Flight Center is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the ...

And Chandra is facing the end of its mission, with NASA's 2025 budget request including ... The $10 billion Webb space telescope survived a tumultuous development process, one that included ...

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...

A brief yet intense X-ray flash, XRT 200515, was detected in NASA's Chandra telescope data from 2000. The signal, originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, has left scientists debating its cause.

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 ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a plasma jet from a supermassive black hole interacting with an unidentified object in the Centaurus A galaxy. This finding offers new insights into ...

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 ...