XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings

Mapping the surroundings of a black hole

Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behaviour and surroundings of a black hole itself.




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Source: ESA Space News