Chandra Image Featured by CNN.COM

On 8/5/21, a Chandra image entitled “V404 Cygni: Huge Rings Around a Black Hole” was released to the public.  This image features a spectacular set of eight rings around a black hole, captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The X-ray images of the giant rings reveal information about dust clouds located in our galaxy and around black holes.  For more information visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/huge-rings-around-a-black-hole.html

On 8/12/21, CNN.com featured a Chandra image release, “Ghostly rings found around a black hole” as one of its leading stories. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/world/black-hole-rings-image-scn/index.html

Chandra Huge Rings around a Black Hole
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