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SS 433

(first microquasar discovered)

SS433 is an eclipsing X-ray binary which is a microquasar. The primary is a stellar-mass black hole and the secondary an A-type star. The primary is accreting matter from the secondary, forming an accretion disk and powering a jet.


(star,variable star,binary star)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_433
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.507L..19C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021Univ....8...13C/abstract
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SS+433
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~05.50kpc17.9klySS 433
Coordinates:SS 433
J191149.56+045857.8

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