News Release Archive: Galaxy > Quasar/Active Nucleus

1996 (continued)

• 2/21/1996 STScI-1996-12 31. 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 32. 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 33. 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)
• 8/7/1995 STScI-1995-30 34. Hubble Uncovers Surprisingly Complex Structures in Radio Galaxies Probing some of the most distant and energetic galaxies in the universe, the Hubble telescope has uncovered surprisingly varied and intricate structures... (More)
• 6/13/1995 STScI-1995-28 35. Astronomers Rule Out Starburst Galaxies as Contributing to the Far-Ultraviolet Background Astronomers using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), flown aboard the Shuttle ASTRO-2 mission, have been able to exclude one explanation... (More)
• 3/31/1995 STScI-1995-22 36. Hubble Data Suggest Galaxies Have Giant Halos NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve a two-decade-old cosmic mystery by showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas surrounding... (More)
• 2/20/1995 STScI-1995-10 37. Hubble Probes the Violent Birth of Stars in Galaxy NGC 253 This Hubble telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, reveals violent star formation within a region 1,000 light-years... (More)
• 1/19/1995 STScI-1995-05 38. Hubble Identifies Huge Clouds of Intergalactic Gas Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence that clouds of hydrogen found between galaxies at distances of billions of light-years... (More)
• 1/11/1995 STScI-1995-04 39. Surprising Hubble Images Challenge Quasar Theory Astronomers report today that new observations from the Hubble telescope challenge 30 years of scientific theory about quasars, the most energetic objects in the universe. (More)

1994

• 5/25/1994 STScI-1994-23 40. 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)