A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7052, 2005, Pages 819-821

  Gallo, Elena ^a   Fender, Rob ^a,b   Kaiser, Christian ^b   Russell, David ^b   Morganti, Raffaella ^c   Oosterloo, Tom ^c   Heinz, Sebastian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BINARY SYSTEM; BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; X RAY LUMINOSITY;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; BLACK HOLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYGNUS X 1; ENERGY; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; X RAY;

CYGNUS;

EID: 23844475148     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03879     Document Type: Article

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