Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Tour: NASA's Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole (03-21-2024)
A brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies.
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A brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole (03-21-2024)
A brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies.
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-- NASA's Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole
A brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies.
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Quick Look: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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Tour: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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Quick Look: Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick (02-08-2024)
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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-- Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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Tour: Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick (02-08-2024)
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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-- Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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-- Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick
Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole (11-06-2023)
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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