News Release Archive: Exotic

1997 (continued)

• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-20 61. Gamma-Ray Bursts Common To Normal Galaxies? Hubble Data Offer New Clues and Puzzles Nature's most powerful explosions, gamma-ray bursts, occur among the normal stellar population inside galaxies scattered... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 62. Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming... (More)
• 5/12/1997 STScI-1997-12 63. Hubble Records a Black Hole's Signature The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a super-massive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered... (More)
• 4/1/1997 STScI-1997-10 64. Hubble Tracks the Fading Optical Counterpart of a Gamma-Ray Burst The Hubble telescope has made an important contribution toward solving one of astronomy's greatest enigmas by allowing astronomers to continue watching... (More)
• 1/14/1997 STScI-1997-02 65. Hubble Finds Intergalactic Stars The Hubble telescope has found a long-sought population of "stellar outcasts" ? stars tossed out of their home galaxies into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space. (More)
• 1/13/1997 STScI-1997-01 66. Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census Announcing the discovery of three black holes in three normal galaxies, astronomers suggest that nearly all galaxies may harbor super-massive... (More)

1996

• 5/9/1996 STScI-1996-21 67. Hubble Space Telescope on Track for Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe Using the Hubble telescope, two international teams of astronomers are reporting major progress in converging on an accurate measurement... (More)
• 4/24/1996 STScI-1996-10 68. Hubble Space Telescope Completes Sixth Year of Exploration A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of the Hubble telescope. Over the past six years Hubble's... (More)
• 2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 69. Hubble Opens Doorway to Systematic Search for Black Holes Hubble Space Telescope's ongoing black hole hunt has bagged yet another supermassive black hole in the universe. The compact... (More)

1995

• 12/4/1995 STScI-1995-47 70. Hubble Finds a New Black Hole - and Unexpected New Mysteries Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found unexpected... (More)