XTE J1550–564 explained

XTE J1550-564, sometimes abbreviated to J1550 and also known as V381 Normae, is a low-mass X-ray binary in the constellation Norma. It is composed of a black hole around 10 times as massive as the Sun,[1] and a star of spectral type K3III. The black hole fires out jets of matter that are thought to arise from an accretion disk, and is hence known as a microquasar.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Steiner, James F. . Reis, Rubens C. . McClintock, Jeffrey E. . Narayan, Ramesh . Remillard, Ronald A. . Orosz, Jerome A. . Gou, Lijun . Fabian, Andrew C. . Torres, Manuel A. P. . 2011. The spin of the black hole microquasar XTE J1550-564 via the continuum-fitting and Fe-line methods. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 416. 2. 941–58 . 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19089.x . free . 2011MNRAS.416..941S. 1010.1013 . 53399981 .

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