One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...
Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...
The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, then ready the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for future upgrades," NASA ...
They are on a job expected to last for around six and a half hours, working to repair an X-ray telescope fitted to the exterior of the station called NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition ...
We did not have X-ray telescopes when those X-ray flares first came to Earth, however the X-ray light interacted with molecular clouds in the CMZ. "The cloud absorbs the X-rays that are coming ...
The discovery is the most distant object detected by the NuSTAR X-ray space telescope (which launched in 2012) and stands as one of the most highly 'variable' quasars ever identified. A Yale-led ...