This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These data give astronomers the best look yet at the growth of ...

This is the deepest image ever taken in X-rays, representing over seven million seconds of Chandra observing time. For that reason, and because the observed field is in the southern hemisphere, ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected sound waves, for the first time, from a super-massive black hole. The "note" is the deepest ever detected from an object in the universe. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. What happens when astronomers use Chandra to take a long look at the same patch of sky? That's the question the project known as the Chandra Deep ...

A study employing NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has monitored two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies that are traveling toward one another. This is the first evidence of two giant ...

An extremely deep Chandra X–ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our Galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the Galaxy. The glow in the ...

An artist's interpretation of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which launched in 1999 and has received an extended mission through at least 2013. The space telescope has captured amazing views of the ...

Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light-years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy. The glow in the ...