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A Tour of Faint Active Nuclei in Chandra Deep Field South (06-02-2017)
Astronomers have determined the Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago and have evidence from the SDSS that supermassive black holes with masses of about a billion times that of the sun existed by about 12.8 billion years ago.
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-- Early Black Holes May Have Grown in Fits and Spurts
-- 'A Quick Look' version of this podcast
Astronomers have determined the Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago and have evidence from the SDSS that supermassive black holes with masses of about a billion times that of the sun existed by about 12.8 billion years ago.
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-- Early Black Holes May Have Grown in Fits and Spurts
-- 'A Quick Look' version of this podcast
A Tour of CDF-S Transient XT1 (03-30-2017)
Scientists have discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays using Chandra X-ray Observatory, in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.
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-- CDF-S Transient: Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Puzzles Astronomers
Scientists have discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays using Chandra X-ray Observatory, in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.
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-- CDF-S Transient: Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Puzzles Astronomers
Tour of Chandra Deep Field South (01-06-2017)
What happens when astronomers use Chandra to take a long look at the same patch of sky?
- Related Links:
-- Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
What happens when astronomers use Chandra to take a long look at the same patch of sky?
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-- Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
A Tour of CL J1001 (08-31-2016)
Galaxy clusters are incredibly important objects in the Universe since they are the largest objects in the Universe held together by gravity.
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-- Record-breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
Galaxy clusters are incredibly important objects in the Universe since they are the largest objects in the Universe held together by gravity.
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-- Record-breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
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
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 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 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
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