Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

New research from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovers fast-moving knots in black hole jets, highlighting differences in ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers studied the jets of a black hole at the center of Centaurus A, watching ...

Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new ...

University of Michigan researchers have tapped into two decades of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory data to unveil fresh insights into the behaviors of cosmic jets emitted by black holes. Their ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after a giant from Greek mythology—contains the largest black hole jets ...

In particular, the study looks at the high-energy jet of particles being blasted across space by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Centaurus A. Jets are visible to different ...