{"id":203648,"date":"2025-01-13T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-new-class-of-cosmic-x-ray-sources-discovered"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:04:26","slug":"a-new-class-of-cosmic-x-ray-sources-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-new-class-of-cosmic-x-ray-sources-discovered","title":{"rendered":"A New Class of Cosmic X-ray Sources discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-class-of-cosmic-x-ray-sources-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Most people encounter X-rays during medical visits where they are used to create images of bones or diagnose lung conditions. These X-rays are generated using artificial sources.<\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone knows that celestial objects can also emit X-ray radiation. \u201cSome cosmic phenomena produce X-rays naturally,\u201d explains Dr. Przemek Mr\u00f3z, the lead author of the study. \u201cFor example, X-rays may be produced by a hot gas falling onto compact objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes. X-rays can also be generated by decelerating charged particles, such as electrons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Most people encounter X-rays during medical visits where they are used to create images of bones or diagnose lung [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}