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NASA Swift Mission Turns On And Sees A Blast Of Bursts
January 6, 2005 — The NASA-led Swift mission opened its doors to a flurry of gamma ray burst action. Swift's primary goal is to unravel the mystery of gamma ray bursts. The bursts are random and fleeting ... > full story -
Most Powerful Eruption In The Universe Discovered
January 6, 2005 — Astronomers have found the most powerful eruption in the universe using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A super massive black hole generated this eruption by growing at a remarkable rate. This ... > full story -
Precocious Supermassive Black Holes Challenge Theories
November 23, 2004 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has obtained definitive evidence that a distant quasar formed less than a billion years after the big bang contains a fully-grown supermassive black hole ... > full story -
Polaroid Sunglasses Let Astronomers Take A Closer Look At Black Holes
November 16, 2004 — An international team led by an Edinburgh astronomer have discovered that by studying polarised light from black holes they can focus much more closely on what exactly is going on around ... > full story -
New NASA Satellite To Study Black Hole Birth And Gamma Ray Bursts
November 3, 2004 — By the end of this day, somewhere in the visible universe a new black hole will have formed. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most distant and powerful explosions known, are likely the birth cries of ... > full story -
After Trio Of Explosions, Scientists Say Supernova Is Imminent
October 1, 2004 — Three powerful recent blasts from three wholly different regions in space have left scientists scrambling. The blasts, which lasted only a few seconds, might be early alert systems for star ... > full story -
ESA's High-Energy Observatories Spot Doughnut-Shaped Cloud With A Black-Hole Filling
July 21, 2004 — Using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton observatories, an international team of astronomers has found more evidence that massive black holes are surrounded by a doughnut-shaped gas cloud, called a ... > full story -
Chandra Looks Over A Cosmic Four-Leaf Clover
July 13, 2004 — NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered evidence that a single star in a foreground galaxy may have magnified X-rays coming from a rare quadruple quasar. About 11 billion light years ... > full story -
Chandra Turns Up The Heat In The Milky Way Center
June 23, 2004 — A long look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed new evidence that extremely hot gas exists in a large region at the center of the Milky Way. The intensity and spectrum of the ... > full story -
'Blazar' Illuminates Era When Stars And Galaxies Formed
June 21, 2004 — In an article posted June 10 to the Astrophysical Journal Letters website, astrophysicists at Stanford report spotting a black hole so massive that it's more than 10 billion times the mass of our ... > full story
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