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LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission.
Posted January 27, 2026
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Quasars
Science & Research
The Universe
The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution.
Posted January 13, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Quasars
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively quickly after the big bang. The black hole weighs about a billion times the mass of the […]
Posted September 18, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Dark Energy
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Stars
Supernovae
The Universe
Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of some of the universe’s first stars, which are thought to completely self-destruct without leaving any remnant behind.
Posted July 15, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Brown Dwarfs
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
Science & Research
Star-forming Nebulae
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
The Universe
Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that were once impossible, changing our view of the cosmos from the most distant galaxies to our own solar system.
Posted July 2, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
ISS Research
Neutron Stars
NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)
Pulsars
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
June 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects.
Posted June 24, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Quasars
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used […]
Posted June 9, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Gaia
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
NEOWISE
The Universe
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years until a star comes close enough to snack on. A new study using space and ground-based […]
Posted June 4, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes.
Posted May 8, 2025
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole betrayed its presence in a newly identified tidal disruption […]
Posted May 8, 2025
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