Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward them in a cosmic feeding process.

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 celebrated its 25th anniversary in stunning style. The space agency released 25 never-before-seen images from the space telescope on Tuesday. The views span the ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT ... Jets from these black holes are driven by the black holes feasting on gas. The images above show two of the ...

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes ... confirming the black hole's unique sideways ... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 5643, located ...

The Perseus Cluster and its central supermassive black hole in white as seen by the Chandra telescope and the VLT ... 170 million light-years away. Both images were produced using Chandra ...

This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most massive ...