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Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space...
The blue dots in this field of galaxies, known as the COSMOS field, show galaxies that contain supermassive black...
Peering more than 10 billion light-years into the distance, WISE has found tens of millions of actively feeding...
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the home galaxy of the...
This animation shows the events that serve as the basis of an astrophysics technique called "echo mapping," also...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years...
This cartoon shows how magnetic waves, called Alfvén S-waves, propagate outward from the base of black hole jets....
An image of the galaxy Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A (the galaxy to the left),...
This is a photo taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory that reveals the remains of an explosion in the form of...
Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility, NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, General Dynamics technicians prepare to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the Astrotech payload processing facility, a General Dynamics technician finishes the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, General Dynamics technicians install one...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, arrives at Kennedy Space Center...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the Astrotech payload processing facility, a General Dynamics technician prepares to...
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Astrotech payload processing facility near the Kennedy Space Center, workers...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, General Dynamics technicians move the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, one of twin solar arrays awaits...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, General Dynamics technicians install the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Astrotech payload processing facility, a General Dynamics technician studies one...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- In the Astrotech payload processing facility, a General Dynamics technician prepares to...