Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

The system, Cygnus X-3, was discovered in the early 1970s when radio telescopes spotted powerful jets radiating out from it ...

XRISM’s Resolve instrument has captured the most detailed X-ray spectrum yet acquired of Cygnus X-3. Peaks indicate X-rays emitted by ionized gases, and valleys form where the gases absorb X ...

Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass binary consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a hot Wolf-Rayet star. This artist's concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray ...

This research has only studied 12 black holes, among them Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-3, stellar-mass binary black hole systems about 7,000 and 37,000 light-years from Earth, respectively ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

An illustration of the black hole binary system Cygnus X-3 compact object likely a black hole and a hot Wolf-Rayet star. | Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using the Japanese-led X-ray ...

The X-ray telescope XRISM, operated jointly by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, created the most detailed map yet of gases flowing through this system, named Cygnus X-3. Cygnus ...