Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'
11-09-2026 12:00 via space.com

Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary systems that steal gas from other stars, but which do so while emitting very low-energy X-rays but copious amounts of ultraviolet.Chandra spotted 84 suspicious object emitting very low-energy X-rays in six galaxies – four evolved ellipticals and two spirals, namely our near-neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)."We've never encountered a group of o
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