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.
This will help to pinpoint sources of high - energy cosmic rays, shed light on
mysterious celestial objects such as
microquasars, reveal any dark matter at the centre of the sun, and see further and at higher energies than with any other telescope.