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TESS spots the rise of a black hole X-ray binary system
- April 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Designed to hunt for new alien worlds, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has serendipitously observed the rising outburst of a black hole X-ray binary known as AT 2019wey. The observations, which may help us better understand the nature of this system, were presented March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Originally published at Phys.org