NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery - NASA
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answerin...
- astrophysics
- chandra x-ray observatory
- galaxies
- galaxy clusters
- ixpe (imaging x-ray polarimetry explorer)
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Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy. Their findings are described in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, […]