NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Finding

Researchers using data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to study a microquasar – a distant black hole stripping a companion star of material – have published new findings about how cosmic-ray particles streaming away from the microquasar may be accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

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