11/2/2006STScI-2006-511.Host Galaxy Cluster to Largest Known Radio Eruption
This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. (More)
9/14/2005STScI-2005-134.Black Hole in Search of a Home
A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's... (More)
11/18/2002STScI-2002-307.Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues to Supernova Origin
A nearby black hole is hurtling like a cannonball through the disk of our galaxy. The detection of this speed demon is the best evidence yet, some astronomers... (More)
9/17/2002STScI-2002-188.Hubble Discovers Black Holes in Unexpected Places
Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected... (More)
7/6/2000STScI-2000-2011.A Cosmic Searchlight
Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling... (More)
6/5/2000STScI-2000-2212.Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation
Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies... (More)
6/5/2000STScI-2000-2113.Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles
A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing... (More)
1/13/2000STScI-2000-0314.Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories have discovered the first examples of isolated, stellar-mass... (More)
6/18/1998STScI-1998-2216.Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk around a Massive Black Hole
Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical... (More)
9/10/1997STScI-1997-2818.Hubble Finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring Out Light
Probing the heart of the active galaxy NGC 6251, the Hubble telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk or ring of dust caught in a blazing... (More)
5/12/1997STScI-1997-1220.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)
11/29/1995STScI-1995-4924.HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995
Hubble Space Telescope evokes a new sense of awe and wonder about the infinite richness of our universe in dramatic, unprecedented pictures of celestial objects. Like a traveler sharing... (More)
11/13/1992STScI-1992-2628.NASA's Hubble Telescope Observes Most Distant Galaxy
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope an international team of astronomers Is uncovering intriguing new details about the most distant galaxy known, located... (More)
10/4/1990STScI-1990-2931.Galactic Black Hole with Optical Jet
The energy source needed to create and maintain the galactic jet in galaxy PKS 0521-36 is generated deep within the core of the galaxy, and is far too small to resolved. The favored... (More)