NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected X-rays from a ‘little red dot’ for the first time, potentially unlocking the ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a rare X-ray–emitting object, 3DHST-AEGIS-12014, located 11.8 billion light-years away, that may bridge the gap between mysterious ‘little red dots’ and ...

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have ...

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted “little red dots” in the universe, and a new X‑ray discovery from the Chandra ...

These Chandra images reveal how stars end their life in majesty Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR 0509-67.5 occurred nearly 400 years ago for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. And when these “supermassive” black holes start to ...

Believe it or not, black holes aren't just plain dark voids in the vastness of space 100 percent of the time. Occasionally, a black hole will spit up the contents of its stellar breakfast the same way ...

Special Colloquium Wednesday, May 21 4 p.m. Coburn 140 Title: The X-ray Sky in High Definition: 25 Years of Astrophysics with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Speaker: Pat Slane, Chandra Director ...