"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." ...

The clouds looked like someone had taken a hole punch to the sky. This unusual phenomenon isn't new. Researchers have been documenting it since the 1940s, according to NASA. But it wasn't until ...

astronomers have discovered that "microquasars," systems in which a black hole is slowly devouring a star, may be small, but they pack one heck of a punch. Despite their diminutive nature ...