Black holes also have a corona, but astronomers have struggled to completely understand its shape and how it relates to the accretion disk of material that surrounds actively feeding black holes ...

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer helps researchers determine shape of black hole corona Oct 17, 2024 X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 has a large relativistic jet, observations show ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the ...