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This cartoon shows how magnetic waves, called Alfvén S-waves, propagate outward from the base of black hole jets....
Most supermassive black holes in the universe are hiding, but NASA’s NuSTAR mission can find them by using...
This is an illustration of a supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 21 million suns, located in the middle of...
Scientists measure the spin rates of supermassive black holes by spreading the X-ray light into different colors....
This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun....
This artist concept illustrates what the flaring black hole called GX 339-4 might look like. Infrared observations...
Top: An illustration of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, in orbit. The unique school...
This two-panel illustration shows a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas, before and after the disk is partially...
This three-dimensional illustration shows how the rotating space around a black hole twists up the magnetic field in...
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active...
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy....
Herschel Space Observatory has shown that galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their...
This artist concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.
NASA Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes have uncovered a long-lost population of active supermassive black holes,...
Magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy, located 13 million...
The magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the...
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Astronomers observed...
NASA NuSTAR will be able to identify individual black holes making up the diffuse X-ray glow, also called the X-ray...
This false-color image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy yellow that houses a quasar, a...
This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc...
Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some extremely massive stars go out...
A 2 week observation through the optic eye of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed this sturning explosion...
SCI2017_0007: Artist illustration of the thick ring of dust that can obscure the energetic processes that occur near...