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May 6, 2025

NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes

For the first time, astronomers have probed the environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.
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May 6, 2025

NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes

A red circle encompasses a galaxy in a snapshot of an all-sky survey.

A galaxy astronomers call Ansky, at the center of this image, is home to a recently discovered series of quasi-periodic eruptions.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets

Editor’s note: This article was updated June 2, 2025 to include the link to the scientific study published in Astrophysical Journal…

May 8, 2025

NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.”

Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it.

May 8, 2025

NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole

A red circle encompasses a galaxy in a snapshot of an all-sky survey.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of distant galaxy that is host to the telltale signature of a roaming supermassive black hole.

Science: NASA, ESA, STScI, Yuhan Yao (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

may 8, 2025

NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue

A new trio of sonifications — or translations into sound — uses data from NASA's Chandra, Webb, and IXPE spacecraft to represent different aspects of black holes. Black holes are neither static nor monolithic. They evolve over time, and are found in a range of sizes and environments. Watch this example and think click the link to view the others.