It's through this process that astronomers first identified black holes with the famous case of Cygnus X-1, one of the brightest sources of X-rays in our sky. In the midst of this feeding frenzy ...
XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...
The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has observed renowned Galactic X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 ... A heavyweight black hole, embedded within quasar SMSS J052915.80−435152.0 at a redshift of ...
It was not until the advent of X-ray astronomy that the first black hole was discovered. Discovered in the 1960s, Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole identified and has a mass ten times that of the ...
The disk would be so hot, it should radiate a copious amount of X-rays ... the black hole. As half of the matter from the now-shredded star gets slurped towards the black hole, only 1% of it ...
The disc would be so hot it should radiate a copious amount of X-rays ... of the black hole. As half of the matter from the now-shredded star gets slurped towards the black hole, only 1% of ...