Telescopes give shape to furious black hole winds
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA's (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions—a phenomenon that had been suspected, but difficult to prove until now.