The mission of Agile, the Italian gamma ray hunter, concluded. Among the many discoveries the presence of a sort of particle accelerator inside the Crab Nebula and the emission of particles from near the black hole Cygnus X-3.
In total over 160 publications and important discoveries related to cosmic sources of high energy as well as a detailed map of the entire Galaxy. “Agile has given us many surprises and first-rate scientific discoveries, the result of the ingenuity and enormous work of all those who saw it first grow and then launched into orbit,” said Marco Tavani, president of Inaf.