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Record-Breaking Wind From Stellar Mass Black Hole Discovered
There was an artisartist’s impression showing a binary system containing a black hole known as IGR J17091t. Observations with NASA’s Chandra orbiting telescope have clocked the fastest wind ever seen blowing off a disk around this stellar-mass black hole at about 20 million miles per hour.
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a shot; adding more drama by including the Milky Way and the Solar System.
From the news:
Black hole, Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA, University of Michigan ANN ARBOR — The fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole has been observed by a team of astronomers that includes a University of Michigan doctoral student.
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting telescope, they clocked the record-breaking super wind at about 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the speed of light. This is
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting telescope, they clocked the record-breaking super wind at about 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the speed of light. This is nearly 10 times faster than astronomers had previously observed from a stellar-mass black hole.
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