The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf ... This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with ...

Scientists are relieved by the observatory’s stay of execution, but concerned that some budget cuts have gutted future research.

The Senate committed $72 million (which would represent full funding) toward Chandra’s “transformative discoveries ... captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC ...

A team of astronomers discovered an old black hole that eats up matter at a rate 40 times faster than the Eddington limit.

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...