A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

The Perseus Cluster and its central supermassive black hole in white as seen by the Chandra telescope and the VLT | Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivares et al.; Optical/IR: DSS; H-alpha ...

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This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most ...

This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most massive ...

"We've found that many more are lurking in plain sight—hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes." Supermassive black holes ... Milky Way and paint a better ...

An international team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered a bizarre black hole that may provide insights into the ...

Using telescopes like Hubble, researchers found a supermassive black hole in galaxy SDSS J1354+1327, 900 million light-years away, blowing hot gas bubbles. NGC 1275, or Perseus A, is a galaxy at the ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in collaboration with the Very Large Telescope (VLT), conducted a study of several galaxy clusters, including the well-known Perseus and Centaurus clusters. These ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies ... in Sweden are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-sized array of eight ground-based ...

The next great space telescope ... the-art astronomy. The standard everyone is aiming for is perfection. In the Clean Room the workers are pretty much indistinguishable. Everyone wears white ...