NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona
New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. A corona is a shifting plasma region that is part of the flow of matter onto a black hole, about which scientists have only a […]
Published by NASA on 10/17/2024
