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.

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 a joint mission by NASA and the Italian Space Agency designed to study high-energy objects in space, including black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, supernova remnants, magnetars, quasars ...

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 ...

For its first science image, the NASA IXPE observatory zoomed in on the remains of a star that appeared in the 17th century, revealing the intensity of X-Ray light coming from the blast.