Chandra X-ray Observatory
Dartmouth-led black hole hunters tackle a cosmic conundrum
Henize 2-10 is a small irregular galaxy that is not too far away in astronomical terms — 30 million light-years. “This is a dwarf starburst galaxy — a small…
Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe
They are tackling this problem by studying the number of black holes in galaxies with different compositions. One of these galaxies, the ring galaxy NGC 922,…
X-Rays From a Reborn Planetary Nebula
The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data…
A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble
Many new stars, some of them very massive, are forming in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44, so named because it is the 44th…
NSF's South Pole Telescope discovers a galaxy cluster creating stars at a record pace
A National Science Foundation-funded radio telescope in Antarctica has found an extraordinary galaxy cluster that may force astronomers to rethink how galaxy…
Astronomers reassured by record-breaking star formation in huge galaxy cluster
The situation changed dramatically when a large international team of over 80 astronomers, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Hubble Fellow Michael…