Artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 binary system (VIDEO)

Curtin University

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Artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 binary system, showing how the wind of the supergiant star bends the black hole's jets away from the star as the objects move in their orbit around one another.

 

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International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

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