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When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...