Astronomers investigate an ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 5055

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 08:10 in Astronomy & Space

Using the Chandra and XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw, Poland, have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 5055. The study, detailed in a paper published August 5 on the arXiv preprint server, provides more insight into the properties of this source.

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