25 Years Later, This Iconic NASA Telescope Lost Critical Funding To Keep It Alive
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory budget may be reduced in 2025 due to funding constraints and spacecraft deterioration.
Chandra plays a crucial role in observing high-energy cosmic events, such as neutron star collisions and black holes, through X-ray emissions. [ more ]
Supermassive black hole at our galaxy center looks like a football
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning so fast that it warps spacetime and takes on the shape of a football.
Researchers used a new method, called the 'outflow method', to estimate the mass and spin rate of Sagittarius A*, using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). [ more ]