In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a ...

as can low-energy light like radio waves. Cygnus X-3 is also shrouded in gas streaming from its massive star occupant. X-rays from around the suspected black hole ionize this gas envelope ...

An illustration of the black hole binary system Cygnus X-3 compact object likely a black hole and a hot Wolf-Rayet star ... which causes wavelengths of light from the gas to be "redshifted ...