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    A microquasar, the smaller version of a quasar, is a compact region surrounding a stellar black hole with a mass several times that of its companion star...
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    uninterrupted by a supernova. A microquasar (or radio emitting X-ray binary) is the smaller cousin of a quasar. Microquasars are named after quasars, as they...
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  • This is a list of all known microquasars: 1E 1740,7-2942 4U1630-47 Cygnus X-1 Cygnus X-3 (V1521) CI Cam GRS 1915+105 GRO J1655-40 GX339-4 KS1731-260 LS...
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  • "Very-high-energy particle acceleration powered by the jets of the microquasar SS 433". Nature. 562 (7725): 82–85. arXiv:1810.01892. Bibcode:2018Natur...
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    SS 433 (category Microquasars)
    SS 433 is a microquasar or eclipsing X-ray binary system, consisting of a stellar-mass black hole accreting matter from an A-type companion star. SS 433...
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    Dwarf By type Protogalaxy Starburst Dark Active Radio Seyfert Quasar Microquasar Blazar OVV Red nugget Void galaxy Discs and media Interplanetary Dust...
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    an analogue of the low X-ray luminosity galactic microquasar SS 433. However, all known microquasars produce large quantities of X-rays, whereas the object's...
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    X-ray transient that most likely contains a black hole and is probably a microquasar. XTE J1118+480 was discovered using the All-Sky Monitor on the Rossi...
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    GRS 1915+105 (category Microquasars)
    the star to the black hole generates a relativistic jet, making this a microquasar system. The jet exhibits apparent superluminal motion. It was discovered...
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    have been observed from astronomical sources such as the Cygnus X-3 microquasar. Natural sources of gamma rays originating on Earth are mostly a result...
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  • can escape from them. Black holes are the end-state for massive stars. Microquasars and active galactic nuclei are believed to be stellar black holes and...
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  • Great Annihilator (category Microquasars)
    1E1740.7-2942, or the Great Annihilator, is a Milky Way microquasar, located near the Galactic Center on the sky. It likely consists of a black hole and...
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    massive as the Sun and a cool orange donor star. The black hole is a microquasar, firing off jets of material most likely from its accretion disk. Four...
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  • LS I +61 303 (category Microquasars)
    et al. (2006). "Variable Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar LS I +61 303". Science. 312 (5781): 1771–3. arXiv:astro-ph/0605549. Bibcode:2006Sci...
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  • Cygnus X-3 (category Microquasars)
    stronger binary X-ray sources in the sky. It is often considered to be a microquasar, and it is believed to be a compact object in a binary system which is...
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    mission identified 40 objects of this kind in the galaxy. In 2012, a microquasar, a radio burst emanating from a smaller black hole was detected in the...
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    Malament–Hogarth spacetime Size Micro Extremal Electron Hawking star Stellar Microquasar Intermediate-mass Supermassive Active galactic nucleus Quasar LQG Blazar...
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    quasars, blazars and recently also in some galactic sources called microquasars. Bursts of energy moving out along the relativistic jets emitted from...
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    also contains several other noteworthy X-ray sources. Cygnus X-3 is a microquasar containing a Wolf–Rayet star in orbit around a very compact object, with...
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  • Malament–Hogarth spacetime Size Micro Extremal Electron Hawking star Stellar Microquasar Intermediate-mass Supermassive Active galactic nucleus Quasar LQG Blazar...
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    formation and evolution Large quasar group List of quasars List of microquasars Microquasar Quasi-star "Most Distant Quasar Found". ESO Science Release. Retrieved...
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    certain types of astronomical objects (such as active galactic nuclei or microquasars). General relativity is also part of the framework of the standard Big...
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    a supernova which occurred about 20,000 years ago. "IMAGE RELEASE: A Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula". National Radio Astronomy Observatory....
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    of them supermassive black holes, can be seen through this window. A microquasar is a smaller cousin of a quasar that is a radio emitting X-ray binary...
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    Malament–Hogarth spacetime Size Micro Extremal Electron Hawking star Stellar Microquasar Intermediate-mass Supermassive Active galactic nucleus Quasar LQG Blazar...
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  • Malament–Hogarth spacetime Size Micro Extremal Electron Hawking star Stellar Microquasar Intermediate-mass Supermassive Active galactic nucleus Quasar LQG Blazar...
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    Albert, J. (2006). "Variable Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar LS I +61 303". Science. 312 (5781): 1771–3. arXiv:astro-ph/0605549. Bibcode:2006Sci...
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    scientific philosophy. He is well known for his investigations of blazars, microquasars, and unidentified gamma-ray sources. His research has received around...
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    Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from Earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes. Cygnus X-1...
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    objects such as the Sun, Jupiter, exoplanets, magnetically active stars, microquasars or binary stars with a compact object (neutron star or black hole) as...
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