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X-ray Astronomy Field Guide:
Black Holes
Chandra Images by Category: Black Holes

-Stellar black holes, mid-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes.

28 Feb 24
Three new translations of telescope data into sound.
21 Feb 24
A galaxy cluster about 3.8 billion light years from Earth where two large galaxies are colliding.
08 Feb 24
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way about 26,000 light years away.
17 Jan 24
A black hole inside a supernova remnant located about 18,000 light-years away.
06 Nov 23
A galaxy containing the most distant black hole discovered in X-rays located about 13.2 billion light years away.
13 Sep 23
Five new multiwavelength images featuring Chandra data.
22 Aug 23
A tidal disruption event about 290 million miles away from Earth.
21 Jun 23
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
23 May 23
A spiral galaxy located about 32 million light-years from Earth.
04 May 23
A massive elliptical galaxy about 55 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster.
22 Feb 23
Merging dwarf galaxies about 760 million and 3.2 billion light-years away respectively.
22 Feb 23
Merging dwarf galaxies about 760 million light-years away.
22 Feb 23
Merging dwarf galaxies about 3.2 billion light-years away.
11 Jan 23
A class of objects that are optically "normal" but bright in X-rays.
11 Jan 23
A class of objects that are optically "normal" but bright in X-rays.
11 Jan 23
A class of objects that are optically "normal" but bright in X-rays.
21 Nov 22
A stellar-mass black hole with a companion star about 2,900 light-years from Earth.
18 Aug 22
A spiral galaxy located about 54 million light-years from Earth.
30 Jun 22
A quasar with a supermassive black hole about 3.4 billion light years away.
12 May 22
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way located about 27,000 light years away.
20 Apr 22
Four galaxies with dense, central star clusters located 18-62 million light years from Earth.
20 Apr 22
Four galaxies with dense, central star clusters located 18-62 million light years from Earth.
20 Apr 22
Four galaxies with dense, central star clusters located 18-62 million light years from Earth.
20 Apr 22
Four galaxies with dense, central star clusters located 18-62 million light years from Earth.
20 Apr 22
Four galaxies with dense, central star clusters located 18-62 million light years from Earth.
31 Mar 22
Nicknamed the "Spiderweb," a galaxy in a protocluster about 10.6 billion light years away.
10 Jan 22
A dwarf galaxy located about 110 million light years from Earth.
16 Dec 21
A galaxy cluster located about 3.9 billion light years from Earth.
31 Aug 21
A single or pair of growing supermassive black holes located 11.8 billion light-years from Earth.
05 Aug 21
A binary system including a black hole about 7,800 light years from Earth.
02 Jul 21
A cluster of galaxies located about 690 million light years from Earth.
14 Apr 21
A galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center located about 55 million light years from Earth.
09 Mar 21
A quasar located about 12.7 billion light years from Earth.
08 Feb 21
A supernova remnant located near the center of the Milky Way.
14 Jan 21
Two of seven triple galaxy mergers that are located between 370 million and one billion light years away from Earth.
14 Jan 21
One of seven triple galaxy mergers located about 890 million light years from Earth.
14 Jan 21
One of seven triple galaxy mergers located about 960 million light years from Earth.
17 Dec 20
A cluster of galaxies located about 2.7 billion light years from Earth.
14 Oct 20
Over 700 supermassive black holes at a range of distances.
02 Sep 20
A sample of multiwavelength images with data from Chandra and other telescopes.
15 Jul 20
The deepest X-ray image ever obtained that contains 28 previously misidentified black holes.
29 May 20
A system with a black hole and companion star about 10,000 light years from Earth.
23 Apr 20
A galaxy with a central supermassive black hole about 250 million light years from Earth.
19 Mar 20
A galaxy cluster located about 240 million light years from Earth.
27 Feb 20
A galaxy cluster located about 390 million light years from Earth.
06 Jan 20
A galaxy with a supermassive black hole about 55 million light years from Earth.
17 Dec 19
Two colliding groups of galaxies located about 380 million light years from Earth.
26 Nov 19
A galaxy located about 9.9 billion light years from Earth
25 Sep 19
A trio of black holes located about a billion light years from Earth.
11 Sep 19
A galaxy containing a supermassive black hole about 250,000 light years from Earth.
08 Aug 19
A black hole obscured by gas and dust about 13 billion light years from Earth.
10 Apr 19
The core of a galaxy about 50 million light years from Earth.
29 Jan 19
About 1,600 rapidly growing black holes located up to 12.7 billion light years from Earth.
09 Jan 19
A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.
06 Sep 18
A ring galaxy located about 300 million light years from Earth.
09 Aug 18
Two separate surveys of "intermediate-mass black holes” that stretch from the nearby Universe to 10.9 billion light years away.
18 Jun 18
A medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star.
09 May 18
A region around the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center about 26,000 light years from Earth.
03 Apr 18
A galaxy cluster located about 250 million light years from Earth.
15 Feb 18
The growth of the biggest black holes in the Universe is outrunning the rate of formation of stars in the galaxies they inhabit.
10 Jan 18
The region of the Milky Way's center about 26,000 light years from Earth.
19 Dec 17
A galaxy cluster located about 250 million light years from Earth.
30 Nov 17
An object possibly containing two supermassive black holes about 2.6 billion light years away.
03 Oct 17
Two pairs of merging supermassive black holes
03 Oct 17
Two pairs of merging supermassive black holes
26 Jun 17
Arp 299: A system of merging galaxies located about 140 million light years from Earth.
31 May 17
A population of growing black holes over 13 billion light years from Earth.
11 May 17
A candidate recoiling black hole located in an elliptical galaxy about 3.9 billion light years away.
02 May 17
Scientists have found a vast wave of hot gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster spanning some 200,000 light years.
19 Apr 17
Centaurus Cluster: A cluster of galaxies located about 145 million light years from Earth.
30 Mar 17
A source located in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) that displays extraordinary properties.
05 Jan 17
A pair of colliding galaxy clusters about 2 billion light years away.
05 Jan 17
The deepest X-ray image, containing objects at a distance of nearly 13 billion light years.
05 Oct 16
A black hole found in the outer regions of a galaxy about 4.5 billion light years from Earth.
14 Jul 16
A gamma-ray burst in a galaxy about 3.9 billion light years from Earth.
27 Jun 16
A binary system containing a quiescent black hole about 7,200 light years from Earth.
24 May 16
One of two distant supermassive black hole "seed" candidates.
06 Jan 16
A recently discovered black hole, could provide new insight into black hole evolution and behavior.
21 Oct 15
A tidal disruption in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.
08 Oct 15
Six objects ranging in location from within the Milky Way to billions of light years away.
23 Sep 15
The 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
09 Jul 15
A black hole ejects part of the accreted matter in the form of energetic radiation.
14 May 15
A magnetar as close as about 2 trillion miles to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
05 Jan 15
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way about 26,000 light years from Earth.
13 Nov 14
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole, about 26,000 light years from Earth.
27 Oct 14
A galaxy cluster about 250 million light years away.
08 Oct 14
A source with unusual pulsations in the M82 galaxy about 11.4 million light years from Earth.
24 Jun 14
A giant collection of galaxies immersed in hot gas about 250 million light years from Earth.
23 Apr 14
Four images of galaxies that have been made using data from both amateur and professional telescopes.
05 Mar 14
A quasar located about 6 billion light years from Earth.
20 Nov 13
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
24 Oct 13
The supermassive black hole about 26,000 light years from Earth at the center of the Milky Way
29 Aug 13
The supermassive black hole located 26,000 light years from Earth in the center of the Milky Way.
12 Jun 13
A spiral galaxy located 2.5 million light years from our own.
30 Apr 13
A pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 330 million light years from Earth.
18 Dec 12
A galaxy cluster about 1.3 billion light years from Earth with a large elliptical galaxy in its center.
18 Dec 12
A galaxy cluster about 1.89 billion light years from Earth.
11 Jun 12
New evidence from Chandra challenges prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.
11 Jun 12
A galaxy, located 85 million light years away, with an unusually large central black hole.
04 Jun 12
The galaxy at the center of this image contains an X-ray source, CID-42, with exceptional properties.
03 May 12
A galaxy about 2.7 billion light years from Earth with a supermassive black hole at its center.
21 Feb 12
A binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole.
08 Feb 12
Illustration of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
17 Nov 11
A stellar-mass black hole in orbit with a companion star located about 6,000 light years from Earth.
27 Jul 11
lenticular galaxy located about 32 million light years from Earth.
15 Jun 11
A composite image combines the deepest X-ray image with optical and infrared data.
07 Apr 11
A gamma-ray burst located about 3.8 billion light years from Earth.
13 Jan 11
A starburst galaxy located about 12 million light years from Earth.
12 Jan 11
A system containing a black hole about 14 times the Sun's mass in orbit with a companion star.
10 Jan 11
A dwarf starburst galaxy about 30 million light years from Earth.
15 Nov 10
A supernova that was seen to explode in 1979 from Earth, found in the galaxy M100.
18 Aug 10
A massive galaxy about 50 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster.
21 Jul 10
A galaxy harboring a giant black hole about 780 million light years away.
07 Jul 10
A galaxy about 12.7 million light years away containing a so-called microquasar.
30 Jun 10
A source in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field thought to be at a distance of almost 4 billion light years.
25 May 10
A supermassive black hole in the center of Andromeda
29 Apr 10
The nearest starburst galaxy to Earth at a distance of 12 million light years.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
05 Jan 10
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
06 Oct 09
A galaxy about 330 million light years from Earth.
27 Aug 09
A black hole in close orbit around a blue supergiant star.
25 Mar 09
A stellar-mass black hole with about 14 times the Sun's mass in the Milky Way.
13 Nov 08
A massive elliptical galaxy about 55 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster.
05 Aug 08
The largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies at a distance of 60 million light years away.
18 Jun 08
A spiral galaxy located about 12 million light years from Earth.
16 Apr 08
Clouds of gas near the central black hole brightened and faded quickly in X-ray light.
10 Jan 08
A sample of nine galaxies each containing supermassive black holes in their centers.
10 Jan 08
A sample of nine galaxies each containing supermassive black holes in their centers.
10 Jan 08
A sample of nine galaxies each containing supermassive black holes in their centers.
25 Oct 07
A compilation of long observations on the same patch of sky.
17 Oct 07
A binary system in the galaxy M33 where a large companion star is in orbit around a black hole.
02 Nov 06
A galaxy cluster located about 2.6 billion light years away in the constellation of Camelopardus.
05 Oct 06
An elliptical galaxy known in the Virgo cluster about 50 million light years away.
21 Jun 06
A binary star system consisting of a black hole and a normal star, located about 11,000 light years from Earth.
05 Jun 06
This color-coded Chandra image shows the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy.
24 Apr 06
A galaxy 12 million light years from Earth that is undergoing a burst of star formation.
24 Apr 06
A large elliptical galaxy in the Centaurus Galaxy Cluster
24 Apr 06
An elliptical galaxy 55 million light years away.
24 Apr 06
An elliptical galaxy 55 million light years away.
24 Apr 06
An elliptical galaxy 146 million light years away.
01 Dec 05
The central region of a rich galaxy cluster about 250 million light years from Earth.
13 Oct 05
Chandra's image of the Galactic Center has provided evidence for a new and unexpected way for stars to form.
23 May 05
X-rays from iron atoms near supermassive black holes in the Chandra Deep Fields.
23 May 05
X-rays from iron atoms near supermassive black holes in the Chandra Deep Fields.
06 Apr 05
Merging submillimeter galaxies.
22 Mar 05
An Ultraluminous X-ray Source in the Spiral Galaxy M74
15 Feb 05
A region of the sky with a minimum of light-absorbing gas.
05 Jan 05
A cluster of galaxies 2.6 billion light years from Earth.
01 Jun 04
Supermassive black hole in a young galaxy billions of light years from Earth.
01 Jun 04
Supermassive black hole in a young galaxy billions of light years from Earth.
10 May 04
Long-exposure image of the giant elliptical galaxy M87.
10 Apr 04
A mid-size black hole in the star cluster MGG 11.
18 Feb 04
A star being torn apart by the tidal forces of a black hole.
05 Jan 04
Jets from SS 433 may be originating five times closer to the black hole than previously thought.
17 Sep 03
Telltale X-rays from iron may reveal if black holes are spinning or not.
17 Sep 03
Telltale X-rays from iron may reveal if black holes are spinning or not.
01 Sep 03
A 53-hour Chandra observation of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
19 Jun 03
The Chandra Deep Fields cover two separate regions in the North and South.
19 Jun 03
The Chandra Deep Fields cover two separate regions in the North and South.
06 Jan 03
This image of Sgr A* was made from the longest X-ray exposure of that region to date.
11 Dec 02
This image shows two high speed lobes 5 trillion kilometers apart on opposite sides of a binary black hole system.
19 Nov 02
An extremely luminous galaxy about 400 million light years from Earth.
03 Oct 02
A binary star system of a black hole and a normal star located in the Milky Way about 17,000 light years away.
28 Jun 02
Scientists Observe Light Fighting To Escape Black Hole's Pull
12 Oct 01
Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope images of two recently detected emitting globular star clusters.
05 Sep 01
A compact radio source in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy thought to be a supermassive black hole.
05 Jun 01
This Chandra image shows a population of point-like "ultraluminous" X-ray sources in M82.
07 May 01
Chandra image of a spectrum of a black hole, which is similar to the colorful spectrum of sunlight produced by a prism.
13 Mar 01
A view of one of the most intensively studied patches of the night sky.
13 Mar 01
This image shows that gigantic black holes were much more active in the past than the present.
01 Feb 01
Supernova remnant Sagittarius A East.
11 Jan 01
This illustration depicts gas from a companion star being drawn by gravity onto a black hole.
12 Sep 00
Mid-mass black hole found 600 light years from galaxy center.
25 May 00
X-ray spectrum probes black hole environs.
14 Jan 00
The nearest starburst galaxy at a distance of 11 million light years from Earth.
14 Jan 00
Our nearest neighbor spiral galaxy at a distance of two million light years.
14 Jan 00
The innermost 10 light years at the center of our galaxy.