2016

• 5/24/2016 STScI-2016-19 1. NASA Telescopes Find Clues for How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly Using data from three of NASA's Great Observatories (the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope)... (More)
• 4/6/2016 STScI-2016-12 2. Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place Imagine driving through a small town containing modest-sized buildings and seeing a 100-story skyscraper. Astronomers found the equivalent monstrosity... (More)
• 3/10/2016 STScI-2016-08 3. Telescopes Combine to Push Frontier on Galaxy Clusters To learn more about galaxy clusters, including how they grow via collisions, astronomers have used some of the world's most powerful telescopes, looking at different... (More)
• 1/7/2016 STScI-2016-02 4. NASA's Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This multiwavelength... (More)

2015

• 12/16/2015 STScI-2015-46 5. Caught in the Act: Hubble Captures First-Ever Predicted Exploding Star Hubble has captured an image of the first-ever predicted supernova explosion. The reappearance of the supernova dubbed "Refsdal" was calculated by different... (More)
• 12/3/2015 STScI-2015-45 6. NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of the Faintest Galaxy from the Early Universe Hunting for faraway galaxies that existed long, long ago is like a fishing trip for astronomers. (More)
• 8/27/2015 STScI-2015-31 7. Hubble Finds That the Nearest Quasar Is Powered by a Double Black Hole Quasars are the light fantastic. These brilliant cores of active galaxies blaze with the radiance of a hundred billion stars compressed... (More)
• 7/30/2015 STScI-2015-27 8. Telescopes Team Up to Find Distant Uranus-Sized Planet Through Microlensing The majority of planets discovered outside our solar system orbit close to their parent stars because these planets are the easiest to find. (More)
• 5/27/2015 STScI-2015-19 9. Hubble Video Shows Shock Collision Inside Black Hole Jet One of the trademarks of the Star Wars film episodes is the dreaded Death Star battle station that fires a beam of directed energy powerful... (More)
• 3/26/2015 STScI-2015-10 10. Hubble and Chandra Discover Dark Matter Is Not as Sticky as Once Thought In particle physics labs, like the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, scientists smash atoms together to study the underpinnings... (More)