Sentences with phrase «in microquasars»
«Something that will take millions of years to take place in AGN will take place over a matter of months in microquasars,» says Stéphane Corbel of the Denis Diderot University, Paris, and CEA Saclay, France, and a member of the Fermi team.
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Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations of pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, as well as microquasars, never before detected in gamma rays.
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.»
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.
«This once - a-day series of exquisitely - detailed images is the best look anyone has ever had at a microquasar, and already has made us change our thinking about how these things work,» said Amy Mioduszewski, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), in Socorro, New Mexico.
Microquasars In far - distant quasars and active galaxies, millions or even billions of light - years away, the gravitational and magnetic energy of supermassive black holes is capable of accelerating «jets» of subatomic particles to speeds approaching that of light.
The first extragalactic microquasar was discovered in M31 in 2012.