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IXPE Stories
What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1,000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Thanks to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian Space Agency), scientists are one…
NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes. These scientific productions are sonifications — or translations into sound — of data collected by NASA telescopes…
Editor’s note: This article was updated June 2, 2025 to include the link to the scientific study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth,…