An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out.
Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Astronomy and astrophysics
Astrophysics
Researchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and fascinating space phenomenon. The study has been published in Nature. Dr Jakob van den Eijnden, from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, lead the analysis of the data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.