Английская Википедия:Great Annihilator

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1E1740.7-2942, or the Great Annihilator,[1][2] is a Milky Way microquasar, located near the Galactic Center on the sky.[3][4] It likely consists of a black hole and a companion star. It is one of the brightest X-ray sources in the region around the Galactic Center.[5]

The object was first detected in soft X-rays by the Einstein Observatory,[6] and later detected in hard X-rays by the Soviet Granat space observatory.[4] Followup observations by the SIGMA detector on board Granat showed that the object was a variable emitter of massive amounts of photon pairs at 511 keV, which usually indicates the annihilation of an electron-positron pair.[7][8] This led to the nickname, "Great Annihilator."[9] Early observations also showed a spectrum similar to that of the Cygnus X-l, a black hole with a stellar companion, which suggested that Great Annihilator was also a stellar mass black hole.[7]

The object also has a radio source counterpart that emits jets approximately 1.5 pc (5 ly) long.[10] These jets are probably synchrotron emission from positron-electron pairs streaming out at high velocities from the source of antimatter. Modeling of the observed precession of these jets gives an object distance of approximately 5 kpc (or 16,000 ly).[4] This means that while the object is likely located along our line of sight towards the center of the Milky Way, it may be closer to us than Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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