NASA's IXPE reveals X-ray-generating particles in black hole jets

NASA’s IXPE Solves Mystery of X-Ray Emissions from Supermassive Black Hole

A supermassive black hole, blazar BL Lacertae, has finally revealed how these cosmic features generate X-rays, thanks to new international research using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Blazar BL Lacertae’s jets point directly toward Earth, pouring forth from the supermassive black hole surrounded by a brilliant halo, which presents an optimal condition for the scientific study of its X-rays. The new work proves that electron a…

NASA Cracks 30-Year X-ray Mystery With Blazing Black Hole Light Show

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets of supermassive black holes like the blazar BL Lacertae. The blazar BL Lacertae—a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole with bright, fast-moving jets ai

NASA's IXPE reveals X-ray-generating particles in black hole jets

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question: How are X-rays generated in extreme environments like this?

Astronomers using the IXPE space telescope studied jets emitted by black holes. They discovered particles that generate X-rays in these extreme conditions. The article IXPE space telescope helps study jets from black holes comes from the website Wszystko co końca.

NASA Telescopes Tune into a Black Hole "Prelude & Fugue"

NASA Telescopes Tune into a Black Hole "Prelude & Fugue"Three new pieces of cosmic sound are being released to celebrate black holes, the densest and darkest members of our universe. These scientific productions are sonifications—or translations—of data collected by NASA telescopes in space including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, James Webb Space Telescope, Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, and others.Black holes are neither static n…

Groundbreaking Research from NASA's IXPE Reveals the Source of X-Ray Emissions in Black Hole Jets

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has uncovered crucial information about the generation of X-rays in the extreme environments around supermassive black holes. This study, which is available on arXiv, marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of the high-energy phenomena found in blazars, such as BL Lacertae. The research shows that electrons, not protons, are responsible for the production of X-rays in the jets of these bla…