Wow...this is just a really unbelievable picture here.  Bringing together data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, what you're looking at at right is a picture of two supermassive black holes only three thousand light years apart. But what astronomers THINK we're looking at is the joining together of two black holes ...

It's not just the Hubble that's bringing back some really amazing pictures of space any more, folks--check out this shot of the Hydra A galaxy from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The physics of this shot pretty much eludes me, despite the fact that I read their description no less than three times.  Here, take a look ...