NASA’s IXPE solves long-standing black hole jets mystery

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Using IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), astronomers have answered a long-standing question — Where do the X-rays in a supermassive black hole's jet come from? To do this, IXPE had to observe a galaxy cluster for more than 600 hours over a 60-day period.

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