An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out.
Credit: Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias
Astronomy and astrophysics
Astrophysics
Researchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and fascinating space phenomenon. The study has been published in . Dr Jakob van den Eijnden, from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, lead the analysis of the data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.