1998 (continued)

• 10/26/1998 STScI-1998-37 21. 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)
• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 22. 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 23. 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

• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 24. 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 25. 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)

1996

• 11/19/1996 STScI-1996-35 26. Hubble Surveys the "Homes" of Quasars Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of galaxies, many of which are violently colliding. This complicated picture suggests... (More)
• 7/18/1996 STScI-1996-25 27. Hubble Achieves Milestone: 100,000th Exposure The Hubble telescope reached a milestone several years sooner than scientists expected when it snapped its 100,000th exposure June 22, 1996. The six-year-old orbiting observatory... (More)
• 2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 28. 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 29. 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 30. 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)