Chandra :: Press Room http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/ Chandra Press Room :: Recent Discoveries en-us All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101618.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101618.html Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:00:00 EST About a year ago, astronomers excitedly reported the first detection of electromagnetic waves, or light, from a gravitational wave source. Chandra Operations Resume After Cause of Safe Mode Identified http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101518.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101518.html Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:00:00 EST The cause of Chandra's safe mode on October 10 has now been understood and the Operations team has successfully returned the spacecraft to its normal pointing mode. Chandra Enters Safe Mode; Investigation Underway http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101218.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_101218.html Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:00:00 EST At approximately 1355 GMT on October 10, 2018, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory entered Safe Mode, where the telescope's instruments are put into a safe configuration NASA Extends Chandra Operations, Science Support Contract http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_092518.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_092518.html Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:00:00 EST NASA has awarded a contract to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to extend operations and science support for the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory for six years, with options for two three-year extensions. Finding the Happy Medium of Black Holes http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_080918.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_080918.html Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:00:00 EST Scientists have taken major steps in their hunt to find black holes that are neither very small nor extremely large. Chandra May Have First Evidence of a Young Star Devouring a Planet http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_071818.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_071818.html Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:00:00 EST Scientists may have observed, for the first time, the destruction of a young planet or planets around a nearby star. 'Red Nuggets' are Galactic Gold for Astronomers http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_062118.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_062118.html Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:00:00 EST Astronomers using Chandra found that black holes may have squelched star formation in small, yet massive galaxies known as "red nuggets". Star Shredded by Rare Breed of Black Hole http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_061818.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_061818.html Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:00:00 EST A medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star. Chandra Scouts Nearest Star System for Possible Hazards http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_060618.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_060618.html Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:00:00 EST In humanity's search for life outside our Solar System, one of the best places scientists have considered is Alpha Centauri, a system containing the three nearest stars beyond our Sun. Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_053118.html/ http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/18_releases/press_053118.html Thu, 31 May 2018 12:00:00 EST A new study using Chandra data of GW170817 indicates that the event that produced gravitational waves likely created the lowest mass black hole known.