Tuesday, November 10, 2026

ALMA Reveals a Jet of Cool Gas from a Microquasar

This object, called LMC P3, emits gamma-ray signals but also has smoking gun proof of a cool jet streaming away from it. Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory Center/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

There's a strange gamma-ray emitter in the Large Magellanic Cloud that has astronomers stumped about its source. It lies within the ashes left behind by a supernova that created a compact object that's part of the system. The supernova remnant provides some evidence for the emissions, but not the whole story.



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