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By Robert Lea Published
The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
A novel "X-arithmetic" technique reveals how black holes shape the universe's largest structures.

By Keith Cooper Published
The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, potentially revealing a way of finding more of them in the future.

By Robert Lea Published
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.

By Robert Lea Published
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.

By Robert Lea Published
The mystery surrounding a strange cosmic object, or 'long-period transient,' has deepened. This object is bursting with X-rays, and astronomers describe it as unlike anything seen before.

By Samantha Mathewson Published
New data from space telescopes has been transformed into cosmic soundscapes, turning the mysterious activity around black holes into a symphony of the universe.

By Robert Lea Published
An X-ray signal that has puzzled scientists for 45 years was the "death knell" of a planet ripped apart by a white dwarf star, data from NASA's Chandra observatory has revealed.

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
A mysterious flash of X-ray emission from outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled.

By Robert Lea Published
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward them in a cosmic feeding process.
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