NASA’s WISE, Fermi missions reveal a surprising blazar connection

Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 11:21 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover […]

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