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This zoomed-in view of a portion of the all-sky survey from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows a...
This plot of data from two space telescopes, NASA NuSTAR and ESA XMM-Newton determines for the first time the shape...
This new false-colored image from NASA Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that a flat, spiral galaxy called NGC 3621 has a...
This infographic explains a popular theory of active supermassive black holes, referred to as the unified model --...
A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist's concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling...
Peering more than 10 billion light-years into the distance, WISE has found tens of millions of actively feeding...
NASA image release May 20, 2011 To see a really cool video related to this image go here:...
This data plot captured by NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shows X-ray light streaming from...
Black holes are tremendous objects whose immense gravity can distort and twist space-time, the fabric that shapes...
A growing black hole, called a quasar, is seen at the center of a faraway galaxy in this artist concept. Astronomers...
Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast radiation and ultra-fast winds outward, as illustrated in...
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY Credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY Credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY Credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY Credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY Credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
With its all-sky infrared survey, NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has identified millions of...
NASA NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, helped lead astronomers to what appears to be a new example of a...
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset...