NASA scientists have finally pinpointed the source of mysterious radiation from a supermassive black hole, solving a puzzle ...

NASA's IXPE mission has identified how X-rays are produced in the jet of a supermassive black hole, confirming that they ...

NASA’s IXPE mission has solved a long-standing mystery by revealing how black hole jets generate X-rays, using the longest ...

NASA’s IXPE identifies the source of X-rays in the black hole jet of galaxy 3C 84, confirming inverse Compton scattering and ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Space is filled with interesting phenomena we don't fully understand, but NASA is launching a mission early Thursday morning that hopes to make a dent in that by studying some of ...

NASA launched its latest mission this week: A space-based observatory that will use X-ray instruments to study phenomena such as black holes, neutron stars, and pulsars. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry ...

The universe is full of mysteries, and one of its most captivating phenomena is the existence of supermassive black holes that produce powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of ...

NASA's newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and — wow — it's spectacular. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to ...