Princeton astrophysicist helps find record-smashing black hole born in the universe's infancy
Two NASA telescopes helped an international team of astrophysicists peer far enough back in time to gain new insight on how black holes form.
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Two NASA telescopes helped an international team of astrophysicists peer far enough back in time to gain new insight on how black holes form.
In the six decades since their discovery, astronomers have come to understand they are powered by black holes at the centers of galaxies.
NASA has unveiled a skeletal hand in the eerie expanse of MSH 15-52. In a Halloween-worthy cosmic revelation, NASA's "spooktacular" Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has ventured into the eerie expanse of MSH 15-52, a celestial structure reminiscent of a skeletal hand.
Just as doctors use X-rays to study anatomy, astronomers targeted a pulsar to learn how its magnetic field affects the nebula around it.
Machine vision gives machines the gift of sight, replacing or complementing manual inspection tasks using digital cameras and image processing.