Ultraluminous X-ray source
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ultraluminous-x-ray-source-177-9439832
title:
Ultraluminous X-ray source
text:
In astronomy and astrophysics, an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) is less luminous than an active galactic nucleus but more consistently luminous than any known stellar process, assuming that it radiates isotropically. Typically there is about one ULX per galaxy in galaxies which host them, but some galaxies contain many. The Milky Way has not been shown to contain an ULX, although SS 433 is a candidate. The main interest in ULXs stems from their luminosity exceeding the Eddington luminosity of
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraluminous_X-ray_source
date created:
2006-03-22T16:19:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:47:46Z
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13
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