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Deep Space

Rare discovery! Three monster black holes are about to collide

They’re at the core of a triple galaxy merger one billion light years from Earth

Deep Space

Chandra checks up on a famous supernova remnant

Researchers use these data to learn more about the physics of Cassiopeia A’s explosion and the expanding aftermath of the debris

Deep Space

Astronomers discover an ancient black hole hidden behind a mask of gas

This important evidence could prove the existence of a black hole just 850 million years after the Big Bang

Deep Space

Gas ‘flows like honey’ as it travels through galaxy clusters

Astronomers can’t recreate this environment on Earth, so they rely on studying these cosmic laboratories with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

Deep Space

Astronomers spot a pair of stars rejected and ejected from their host galaxy

The stellar travellers have found themselves about 600,000 light years away from their once-homely galaxy

Deep Space

Astronomers spot the signal of two distant neutron stars merging

The merger sent an intense flash of radiation into the cosmos, picked up by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

Astronomy

View the explosive X-ray scene at the galactic centre

This new visualisation offers a 360 degree, riveting experience of what resides at the centre of our Milky Way

Deep Space

The universal mystery of the missing mass

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has used X-ray powers for the greater good to help solve the long-standing mystery of Universe’s matter

Deep Space

How hot are the atoms in supernovae shock waves?

The nearby supernova SN1987A was the subject of X-ray analysis that has led to this discovery

Deep Space

The youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way has been found

The results from this study could reveal what happens to some stars during their demise

Deep Space

Astronomers spot an X-ray tail stretching between galaxies

Observing groups of galaxies collide in X-rays has revealed more about the drastic cosmic occasion

Deep Space

Galactic collision formed an ‘x-ray ring’

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a ring of black holes or neutron stars, or even both, 300 million light years away from Earth

Deep Space

Life looks ‘more likely’ around Alpha Centauri

Observations of X-ray emissions around the four-light-year-distant star system shows encouraging signs for habitability of any orbiting exoplanets

Deep Space

Famous exploded star revealed with incredible clarity

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has imaged the intricate and energetic features within the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

Solar System

Jupiter’s ‘light show’ found to pulsate at its poles

By observing the X-ray emissions from the Jovian planet, scientists speculate that the planet’s magnetic field could be causing unusual aurora

Deep Space

Astronomers study volatile stellar eruption dating back almost 1000 years

The explosive behaviour of R Aquarii can tell us about the two stars that comprise the system

News

Powerful galactic ‘double whammy’ discovered for the first time

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen before

News

Dieting black hole dims its host galaxy

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behaviour of a supermassive black hole

News

X-ray space telescopes find new class of explosive cosmic events

The mysterious X-ray sources flare up and become about a hundred times brighter in less than a minute

News

Space telescopes spot a young star drifting through space alone

The independent star is also going through a tremendous growth spurt

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