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Clumpy Doughnuts around Supermassive Black Holes

NuSTAR News • March 21, 2024

Studying how accreting supermassive black holes vary in brightness over time, NuSTAR finds evidence they are embedded in a clumpy, doughnut-shaped structure.

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A Decade of NuSTAR: What Its X-Ray Vision Has Taught Us

NuSTAR News • August 3, 2022

NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), led by Caltech and managed by JPL, turned 10 years old in June. This space telescope detects high-energy X-ray light and studies some of the most energetic objects and processes in the universe.

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The Universe in X-ray Light

NuSTAR News • August 3, 2015

When I stop and think about it, it never ceases to amaze me that radio waves, infrared light, which we experience as heat, x-rays and gamma-rays are all the same fundamental physical phenomenon – light, or electromagnetic radiation. The thing that distinguishes these different kinds of light is the wavelength.

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array science operations center is located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology

NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

Clumpy Doughnuts around Supermassive Black Holes

A Decade of NuSTAR: What Its X-Ray Vision Has Taught Us

The Universe in X-ray Light