Recent Discovery on Black Holes
Scientists have found a way to get new information about black holes. The way is clear for a better understanding of how a black hole swallows nearby massive matter and ejects matter from its burrow. Recently, the details of the joint research by NASA and the Italian Space Agency have been published in the journal Science.
In December last year, NASA and the Italian agency jointly launched the X-ray telescope IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) into orbit. It detected X-rays from the black hole named Cygnus X-1. However, as before, not only the source of that ray, but its polarization and radiation type were also understood.
Henryk Krzynski, a researcher at the University of Washington, said that information resides in this polarization. In the case of black holes, the type...
