Empower Russian space telescope ART-XCinstalled on Russian space laboratory “SPECTER-RG”For the first time in the history of Observing the finest details in the heart of the Milky Way Galaxywhich was obscured behind a thick veil of cosmic dust.

The observational results surprised astronomers, as it turned out that the core of the Milky Way in the X-ray range is three times brighter than scientists expected.

The telescope was able to solve one of the most complex astronomical problems: Characterizing radiation from the central stellar disk while excluding “noise” from hundreds of other bright cosmic sources.

This discovery allows… A new hypothesis about what is happening at the heart of the galaxy. Scientists assume Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences This unusual brightness is due to the record concentration of binary star systems, where matter moves from one star to its neighbor – a white dwarf – resulting in stronger X-ray radiation, which is what the telescope observed.

It is noteworthy that the Russian space laboratory “Spectre-RG”, developed by the Lavochkin company, was launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2019.

Source: TASS