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22 December 2025

IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy. Their findings are described in papers...

6 May 2025

IXPE explores Black Hole’s Jet

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA mission in collaboration with the Space Italian Agency (ASI), has resolved a fundamental question concerning the origin of X-rays in blazar jets. These supermassive black holes, whose relativistic jets are directed towards the Earth, are still...