Published in Nature Astronomy · View the paper (DOI)
A team of scientists has captured the time delay between X-ray flares and optical light flashes in a stellar-mass black hole, resolving controversy over jet plasma activation. This study uses precise multi-wavelength observations to demonstrate that relativistic jets are formed by gravity and magnetic fields.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Scientists penetrate mystery of raging black hole beams University of Southampton · Oct 30, 2017 · first to report
- The WHT measures the size of a stellar-mass black hole jet Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) · Nov 28, 2017