A Tour of Black Hole Seeds (06-02-2016)
The new results suggest that at least some of the supermassive black holes in the early Universe formed through this direct collapse method.

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--  NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly

A Tour of Tycho's Supernova Remnant (05-25-2016)
In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion - what is now known as Tycho's supernova remnant - with many telescopes including the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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--  Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris From a Stellar Explosion

A Tour of Galaxy Clusters (05-06-2016)
A new study tries to tackle the questions surrounding dark energy by examining properties of X-ray emission from galaxy clusters.

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--  "Russian Doll" Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy

A Tour of Comets ISON and PanSTARRS (04-21-2016)
Recently, astronomers have performed such a study using observations with Chandra of two comets, named ISON and PanSTARRS.

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--  Comets in the "X"-Treme

A Tour of G1.9+0.3 (04-08-2016)
A little more than a century ago, as seen from the Earth, a star exploded near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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