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A new image shows the magnetic field around Sagittarius A*, a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. BU researchers explain its significance.
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A new image shows the magnetic field around Sagittarius A*, a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. BU researchers explain its significance.
On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists commemorated two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission.
Dec. 9 marks two years since the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light – and the geometry and inner workings of the ultra-powerful energy sources from which it emanates.
The finding could help reveal how black holes launch such high-energy ejections