Neutron stars join the black hole jet set

Contact: Megan Watzke
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Chandra X-ray Center

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system. This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black holes can generate powerful beams of relativistic particles.

The jet was found in Circinus X-1, a system where a neutron star is in orbit around a star several times the mass of the Sun, about 20,000 light years from Earth. A neutron star is an extremely dense remnant of an exploded star consisting of tightly packed neutrons.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/cxc-nsj062707.php

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