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

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

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NASA Cracks 30-Year X-ray Mystery With Blazing Black Hole Light ShowAstronomers 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 aimed directly at Earth—offered scientists a rare opportunity to answer […]

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