Some 30,000 light-years from Earth, a tiny gravitational monster is tearing material from a companion star, blasting X-rays into space and sporadically hurling out jets of radio-wave-emitting blobs at close to the speed of light.
JET SETTER Researchers have now made the first definitive detections of gamma rays from Cygnus X-3, shown here in a portrait taken a decade ago by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (The sharp horizontal line is an artifact).
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