An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has provided new insights into black hole corona and polarised X-ray ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

In a breakthrough study,NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has revealed surprising insights into the behavior ...

IXPE launched in Dec. 2021 and has made many observations of pulsars, but J1023 was the first system of its kind that it explored.

But when NASA’s newest Explorers Program mission, IXPE, launches, we’ll see them like never before. Stellar remnants such as black holes and neutron stars are difficult to see. Because of their tiny ...

The IXPE observations also reveal that the magnetic field over small regions is highly tangled, without a dominant preferred direction. Credits: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J ...

IXPE is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency with partners and science collaborators in 12 countries. IXPE is led by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

IXPE is due for launch in 2020. The IXPE probe takes advantage of three Italian-made X-ray detectors. (NASA Illustration) The $188 million price tag includes the cost of the launch vehicle as well ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope has detected unexpected X-ray polarization from the "heartbeat black hole," formally known as IGR J17091-3624.