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2009

9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 1. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

2006

11/2/2006 STScI-2006-51 2. 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)
5/16/2006 STScI-2006-21 3. Astronomer Wins Top Prize for Creating Black Hole Web Site Explore the world of black holes in an award-winning Web site created by a team led by Roeland van der Marel, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science... (More)

2005

9/20/2005 STScI-2005-26 4. Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighboring... (More)
9/14/2005 STScI-2005-13 5. 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)

2004

6/1/2004 STScI-2004-19 6. Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects in the Distant Universe Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today, and announced the detection... (More)
2/4/2004 STScI-2004-45 7. New Hubble Study Reveals How Black Holes Get Their Kicks When black holes collide, look out! The "kick" from an enormous burst of gravitational radiation that occurs during the collision... (More)

2002

11/18/2002 STScI-2002-30 8. 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)
9/17/2002 STScI-2002-18 9. 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)

2001

9/12/2001 STScI-2001-29 10. Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Sun's Galactic Neighborhood, Devouring Companion Star Data from the Space Telescope Science Institute's Digitized Sky Survey has played an important supporting role in helping radio and X-ray astronomers... (More)
1/11/2001 STScI-2001-03 11. 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of an Event Horizon The Hubble telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing... (More)

2000

7/6/2000 STScI-2000-20 12. 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)
6/5/2000 STScI-2000-22 13. 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)
6/5/2000 STScI-2000-21 14. 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)
1/13/2000 STScI-2000-03 15. 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)

1999

10/27/1999 STScI-1999-43 16. Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet Near a Black Hole Astronomers have seen the exhaust products of black hole "engines": narrow beams of material traveling... (More)

1998

6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 17. 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)
5/14/1998 STScI-1998-14 18. Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism — a massive... (More)

1997

9/10/1997 STScI-1997-28 19. 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)
6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 20. 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 21. 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)
1/13/1997 STScI-1997-01 22. 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

2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 23. 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 24. 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)
11/29/1995 STScI-1995-49 25. 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)

1994

5/25/1994 STScI-1994-23 26. Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical... (More)

1993

6/9/1993 STScI-1993-15 27. A Lighthouse Beacon From the Core of an Active Galaxy A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the core of the barred spiral Seyfert galaxy NGC 5728 reveals a spectacular bi-conical... (More)

1992

11/19/1992 STScI-1992-27 28. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Disk Fueling a Possible Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have gotten their best look yet at the disk of material that surrounds... (More)
11/13/1992 STScI-1992-26 29. 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)
6/8/1992 STScI-1992-17 30. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark "x" Across the Nucleus of M51 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with what may be their first direct view of an immense... (More)
1/16/1992 STScI-1992-01 31. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Probes the Compact Nucleus of Galaxy M87 Astronomers report today that they have found intriguing evidence that a black hole weighing over 2.6 billion... (More)

1990

10/4/1990 STScI-1990-29 32. 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)
10/4/1990 STScI-1990-13 33. Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years... (More)