NASA, ESA Telescopes Give Shape to Furious Black Hole Winds


WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA’s (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions — a phenomenon that had been suspected, but difficult to prove until now. This discovery has given astronomers their first opportunity to…

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