NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona. The stellar-mass black hole, part of the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613, was discovered in the summer of 2023 […]
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IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Marshall Science Research & Projects, Marshall Space Flight Center
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December 6, 2024
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