The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

The Chandra telescope was launched by the space shuttle Columbia in 1999 and ... Craig Wheeler resurrected a model from the 1960s that says the original star must have been at least 100 times ...

To understand the history of this system, the team looked at 2005 data from the Chandra spacecraft, taken when the system was ...

Using advanced data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ... da Silva/M. Zamani/Space.com This breakthrough supports a model where black holes do not only feed on external gas but also regulate ...