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Saturday, August 7, 2021
CONTEXT: X-Ray Echoes from a Black Hole
The horizontal gaps are an imaging artifact, but the rings themselves are a genuine cosmic feature created by a black hole 9 times as massive as the Sun, located 7,800 light years away. https://t.co/1ALWb1qOSu pic.twitter.com/N6J5dU2YQE
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) August 7, 2021
Here is the research paper, “A Joint Chandra and Swift View of the 2015 X-Ray Dust Scattering Echo of V404 Cygni”.
Posted at August 7, 2021 10:50