NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has provided new insights into black hole corona and polarised X-ray ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 light-years from Earth — were taken using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE).

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found ...

IXPE is a joint mission by NASA and the Italian Space Agency designed to study high-energy objects in space, including black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, supernova remnants, magnetars, quasars ...

The IXPE observations also reveal that the magnetic field over small regions is highly tangled, without a dominant preferred direction. Credits: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J ...

This IXPE image maps the intensity of X-rays coming from Cassiopeia A. The colors, including cool purple, blue, red and white, correspond with the increasing brightness of the X-rays.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, rolls out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Dec. 7, 2021.

The IXPE’s solar array underwent testing and integration at Ball Aerospace test facilities in Boulder. The joint mission by NASA and the Italian Space Agency costs a mere $188 million.

But when NASA’s newest Explorers Program mission, IXPE, launches, we’ll see them like never before. Stellar remnants such as black holes and neutron stars are difficult to see. Because of their tiny ...