NASA’s X-Ray Explorer Unveils Black Hole’s Hidden Layers

NASA’s IXPE mission has provided new insights into black holes’ coronae, revealing their shape and enhancing our understanding of their structure. This data, derived from the observation of both stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, indicates a similarity in the accretion disks’ geometry regardless of the black hole’s size. New discoveries from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray [...]