NASA's IXPE fires up astronomers with new blazar findings

NASA's IXPE fires up astronomers with new blazar findings

Space Daily

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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 19, 2023

The universe is full of powerful supermassive black holes that create powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of space. When one of those jets points directly at Earth, scientists call the black hole system a blazar. To understand why particles in the jet move with great speeds and energies, scientists look to NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ra

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