An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
A collection of illustrations, animations and video.
Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
Q&A: Black Holes
Are jets from Black Holes stranger than the super hot solar
atmosphere? How do cosmic winds interact with the fields from
forming Black Holes? Wouldn't they light up like dust over a
laser beam?
The jets do interact with their surroundings. They push the gas
around, and are bent by collisions with the gas, and possibly
twisted by the rotation of the black hole and the space and
field around it. Also, if there is enough dust, the radiation
will be scattered by that dust.
