NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Findings
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2024 - The powerful gravity fields of black holes can devour whole planets' worth of matter - often so violently that they expel streams of particles traveling near the speed of light in formations known as jets. Scientists understand that these high-speed jets can accelerate these particles, called cosmic rays, but little is definitively known about that process.
Recent findings by researchers using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) spacecraft... Читать дальше...