Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Today, let’s check our progress on the ‘Space Missions and Technology in India’ — using the 4R Strategy: READ – REVISE – ...

We often blame our stars for the relationships that do not go as planned. Instead of enriching our lives, some connections ...

Scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarisation Explorer) to study a white dwarf star for the first time. By measuring the polarisation of X-rays, the mission allowed astronomers to ...

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 ...

IXPE, which launched Dec. 9, 2021, is the only satellite flying today that can make such a polarization measurement. "This was one of the biggest mysteries about supermassive black hole jets," said ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This illustration of material swirling around a black hole highlights a particular feature, ...

Roughly 300 years ago, light from a supernova first appeared in Earth’s skies and formed the brilliant object Cassiopeia A. That blast emitted powerful shockwaves packed with clues about how a star ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer team at NASA has been awarded a prestigious prize in the field of high-energy astronomy. Along with their teams, retired NASA astrophysicist ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), ...