News Release Archive: Exotic

2000 (continued)

• 7/6/2000 STScI-2000-20 41. 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 42. 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 43. 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)
• 5/3/2000 STScI-2000-18 44. Lost and Found: Hubble Finds Much of the Universe's Missing Hydrogen For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked up in the Big Bang but somehow managed to disappear... (More)
• 1/24/2000 STScI-2000-07 45. Hubble Reopens Its Eye on the Universe The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 servicing mission by imaging a Sun-like star, dubbed the "Eskimo Nebula"... (More)
• 1/13/2000 STScI-2000-03 46. 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 47. 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)
• 5/13/1999 STScI-1999-18 48. Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe A Hubble telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs, and crosses that are all mirages produced by a gravitational... (More)
• 5/6/1999 STScI-1999-16 49. Internet Voters Get Two Galaxies in One from Hubble Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure is not yet understood... (More)
• 3/11/1999 STScI-1999-09 50. Hubble Views Home Galaxy of Record-Breaking Explosion Here are Hubble telescope views of the rapidly fading visible-light fireball from the most powerful cosmic explosion recorded to date. (More)

1998

• 10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 51. New Research That Uses Gravitationally Lensed Quasars to Measure Universe is Good News, Bad News for Cosmologists Astronomers who are using the Hubble telescope to observe the gravitational lensing of light from distant... (More)
• 8/19/1998 STScI-1998-26 52. Distant Heavyweight Galaxy Cluster Clobbers Dense-Universe Theory A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer has found the equivalent of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla in deep space. The "gorilla" is an extremely massive cluster... (More)
• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 53. 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 54. 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)
• 5/6/1998 STScI-1998-17 55. Gamma-Ray Burst Found to be Most Energetic Event in Universe A team of astronomers has announced that a recently detected gamma-ray burst was as bright as the rest of the universe, releasing a hundred... (More)
• 1/8/1998 STScI-1998-02 56. Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before our Sun even existed, the Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to determine that the expansion... (More)

1997

• 9/16/1997 STScI-1997-30 57. Hubble Stays on Trail of Fading Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball, Results Point to Extragalactic Origin Hubble telescope observations of the ever-fading fireball from one of the universe's most mysterious phenomena ? a gamma-ray... (More)
• 9/10/1997 STScI-1997-28 58. 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)
• 7/30/1997 STScI-1997-25 59. World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe... (More)
• 6/10/1997 STScI-1997-22 60. Mysterious Fireball From A Cataclysmic Explosion The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph. (More)