Artist impression of the X-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070 (IMAGE)

University of Freiburg

Artist impression of the X-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070

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Artist impression of the X-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070 containing a black hole (small black dot at the center of the gaseous disk) and a companion star (red). A narrow jet is directed along the black hole spin axis, which is strongly misaligned from the axis of the orbit. Image produced with Binsim

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R. Hynes

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