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 | This image appeared in the May 2002 Sky & Telescope. A microquasar, as its name suggests, is a little like a miniature quasar. They are X-ray binary stars in which a normal star is being "eaten" by a black hole or, sometimes, a neutron star. A disc of matter surrounds the black hole or neutron star, and jets of high-speed particles are blasted out of the centre of this disc by processes that are not that clearly understood. |
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