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Star eating black hole spotted by Hubble and Chandra
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have collaborated to identify a potential example of an elusive category of black holes. Known as NGC 6099 HLX-1, this luminous X-ray source appears to be located within a compact star cluster on the outskirts of a massive ellipti...
Phoenix galaxy cluster mapped by Webb
Thursday, February 20, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed how a massive galaxy cluster sustains high rates of star formation, resolving a long-standing mystery. This finding builds on more than a decade of studies conducted with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space ...
Galaxy 9422 spotted by NASA JWT could be a missing link
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. Found approximately one billion years after the big bang, galaxy GS-NDG-9422 ...
Evidence of IMBH in Omega Centauri discovered by Hubble
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 by Richard Harris
Most black holes known to science fall into two categories: extremely massive, like those found at the centers of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with masses less than 100 times that of the Sun. Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are rare and considered elusive "missing links"...