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The astrophysicists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to capture the faintest details yet seen in the plasma jets emerging from the microquasar SS 433, an object once dubbed the «enigma of the century.»
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It could be a «microquasar» — a black hole feeding on gas from a nearby star — but the X-rays typically emitted from such objects are absent.
While the jets from galaxy cores are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes millions of times more massive than the Sun, the closer «microquasars» are powered by much smaller black holes or by neutron stars only a few times more massive than the sun.
The pair of stars, called Scorpius X-1, form a «microquasar,» in which material sucked from the «normal» star forms a rapidly - rotating disk around the superdense neutron star.
Making an extra effort to image a faint, gigantic corkscrew traced by fast protons and electrons shot out from a mysterious microquasar paid off for a pair of astrophysicists who gained new insights into the beast's inner workings and also resolved a longstanding dispute over the object's distance.
The discovery of microquasars within our own Milky Way Galaxy has won two astronomers a prize from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.