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Quick Look: Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action (05-22-2024)
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action

Tour: Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action (05-22-2024)
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action

Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting (05-09-2024)
Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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-- NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting
Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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-- NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting

Tour: NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting (05-09-2024)
Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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-- NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting
Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
- Dowload Video Podcast (479.3 MB, Runtime: 2:38)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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- Transcript
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-- NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting

Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits (04-24-2024)
New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — include X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the remains of two massive stars in our galaxy.
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-- NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits
New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — include X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the remains of two massive stars in our galaxy.
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-- NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits

Please note: These podcasts include artist illustrations and conceptual animations in addition to astronomical data.