Chandra finds fastest wind from stellar-mass black hole
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves.
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