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 ...
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Super-magnetic dead star throws a violent temper tantrum as NASA X-ray spacecraft looks on
Using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, astronomers have made detailed observations of a highly magnetic dead star or "magnetar" as it threw a massive tantrum. The ...
In a breakthrough study,NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has revealed surprising insights into the behavior of matter surrounding black holes, challenging long-held scientific theories ...
NASA plans to launch a potential $188 million mission by 2020 to explore and collect information on black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and other cosmic X-rays. The IXPE mission will send three ...
SpaceX has received a contract to help NASA launch an observatory designed to help scientists discover astronomical details in space. NASA said Tuesday it estimates the cost of the Imaging X-Ray ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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 ...
Three new sonifications of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have been released. Sonification is the process of translating data into sounds. In the case of Chandra and ...
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