A near-Earth microquasar emerges as a source of powerful radiation

Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation of particularly high energies, are located in the nuclei of active galaxies distant from Earth. However, a different picture of reality emerges from the latest data from the HAWC observatory: Jets launched by astrophysical sources from our own intra-galactic "backyard" are also sources of gamma photons of extremely high energy.