NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

Polarimetry is a sensitive, nondestructive method for measuring the optical activity exhibited by these inorganic and organic compounds. The human eye cannot recognize whether light is polarized ...

The Polarimetry and Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy Services are analytical facilities based in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and are offered to all University of Sheffield ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Cochran, Anita L. Levasseur-Regourd, Anny-Chantal Cordiner, Martin Hadamcik, Edith Lasue, Jérémie Gicquel, Adeline Schleicher, David G. Charnley, Steven B. Mumma ...

"(The) comprehensive approach combining polarimetry and melting point determination proved to be cost-effective compared to ...

The pulsar of the nebula is located in the “palm” of the ghost hand, and now images taken by NASA’s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), have given us an ...

This unique property has applications in areas like generating special optical forces, achieving flat-top intensity profiles, ...

The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the universe at the largest and smallest spatial ...