The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
X 27°Aq53'16 +56°54'52 / 3U2030+40, Cyg X-3
Short period binary
With enormous increase in radio output Fall 1972
X 15°Pi59'49 +47°57'27 / 3U2142+38, Cyg X-2, Cyg 2
X 26°Ar43'21 +54°51'13 / 3U2321+58, Cas A = 3C 461
Several x-ray binary star systems found to date may
contain a black hole as one of their components. The
only, more or less, official black hole is the x-ray
source Cygnus X-1 (#101 in the x-ray list) located at
13° degrees of Aquarius on the ecliptic. It is now
considered that black holes may be very common in
the universe and that they are required or regular
members rather than oddballs. Speculation ranges
from black holes the size of a pinhead in existence to
their being a black hole at the center of our galaxy. It
has been suggested that globular clusters may
contain black holes. More about some of the other
super-dense stellar remains is given in the section on
stellar evolution.
X-ray astronomy is experiencing rapid growth similar
to that of high-energy particle physics in the 1960's.
New data pouring in from orbiting x-ray satellites will
help to revolutionize our knowledge of physics
through a variety of ongoing research that includes (1)
an understanding of how plasma behaves at
temperatures of billions of degrees when immersed in
magnetic fields millions of times stronger than any on
the Earth, (2) the measurements of neutron star
masses, (3) sources of rapidly repeating x-ray
bursters, (4) x-ray polemetry, and (4) more details on
the various black hole candidates.
We can expect detailed x-ray maps of our own and
other galaxies to become available in the next few
years. The gamma-ray astronomy (at even higher
frequencies) is just now getting to the point of locating
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