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2009

4/14/2009 STScI-2009-16 1. Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Gas Jet from M87's Black Hole In our violent, discordant, and effervescent universe, reality always seems to be stranger than fiction. (More)

2/5/2008 STScI-2008-07 2. Isolated Galaxy or Corporate Merger? Hubble Spies NGC 1132 The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 reveals the final result of what may have been a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past. Another possibility... (More)

2/5/2007 STScI-2007-08 3. Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)

3/31/2005 STScI-2005-11 4. Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. (More)

4/4/2002 STScI-2002-07 5. A Galaxy That's All Wound Up Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the galaxy NGC 2787 in this Hubble Space Telescope image. In astronomer Edwin Hubble's... (More)

7/6/2000 STScI-2000-20 6. 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 7. 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)

10/27/1999 STScI-1999-43 8. 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)
10/26/1999 STScI-1999-40 9. Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy The Hubble telescope's sharp vision has clearly seen - for the first time - hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. Hubble confirms... (More)
2/18/1999 STScI-1999-06 10. Hubble Finds More Evidence of Galactic Cannibalism This beautiful, eerie silhouette of dark dust clouds against the glowing nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 may represent the aftermath of a 100-million-year-old... (More)

6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 11. 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 12. 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)

9/10/1997 STScI-1997-28 13. 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)

2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 14. 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)

6/14/1995 STScI-1995-07 15. Galaxy NGC 4881 and the Coma Cluster This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... (More)

5/25/1994 STScI-1994-23 16. 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)

11/19/1992 STScI-1992-27 17. 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)
5/7/1992 STScI-1992-14 18. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a High Energy Jet in Galaxy NGC 3862 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unusual and fascinating new optical jet in the nucleus of the elliptical galaxy NOC 3862. (More)
4/8/1992 STScI-1992-09 19. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Images the Dense Nucleus of Galaxy M32 Astronomers report that they have found new evidence that a black hole weighing 3 million times the... (More)
1/16/1992 STScI-1992-01 20. 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)
1/16/1992 STScI-1992-02 21. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Young Star Clusters in Giant Galaxy NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided intriguing new clues to cataclysmic events in the history of the peculiar galaxy NGC 1275, located... (More)
1/16/1992 STScI-1992-07 22. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Yields Clear View of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87 A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus... (More)