Research
ALMA Reveals a Jet of Cool Gas from a Microquasar
Universe Today · By Carolyn Collins Petersen ·
The Brief
- A gamma-ray emitter in the Large Magellanic Cloud has left astronomers unsure what powers it.
- The emitter lies within the remnant of a supernova that created a compact object now part of the system.
- The supernova remnant provides some evidence about the source, according to Universe Today's report on ALMA observations of a jet of cool gas from a microquasar.
Why it matters
The study links a gamma-ray source to a microquasar jet, which helps narrow down what drives high-energy emission from compact-object systems.
Who’s affected
- astronomers studying high-energy sources and microquasars
- astrophysicists working with radio and millimetre observations
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There's a strange gamma-ray emitter in the Large Magellanic Cloud that has astronomers stumped about its source. It lies within the ashes left behind by a supernova that created a compact object that's part of the system. The supernova remnant provides some evidence for the…