IGR J17091 And The Cosmic Hurricane
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 17:10
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole - about 20,000,000 miles per hour, 3 percent of the speed of light. This is nearly 10 times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass black hole. read more