Nasa's Fermi telescope peers deep into a 'micro-quasar'

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 11/30/2009 - 21:45

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3.

The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object -- either a neutron star or a black hole -- that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at more than half the speed of light.

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