NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole—specifically, the disk of material swirling around it and ...
In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has finally answered a ...
This NASA illustration shows the structure of a black hole jet as inferred by recent observations of the blazar Markarian 421 by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The jet is powered by an ...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of what happens to matter in the direct vicinity of a black hole. With ...
The universe is full of mysteries, and one of its most captivating phenomena is the existence of supermassive black holes that produce powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of ...
Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...
As matter swirls violently down toward the event horizon of a black hole, it forms an accretion disk, heating plasma to millions of degrees and blasting X-rays into space. But what exactly does the ...
Using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, astronomers have detected and mapped polarized X-rays from the remnants of an exploded star for the first time. IXPE, a satellite developed by NASA and ...
This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Earlier this year, scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization ...
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