Source: ESA
For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the spot where the intense winds of two massive stars in a binary system violently collide and detected the production of high-energy X-rays there. The monstrously large Eta Carinae binary contains between 100 and 150 times the mass of the sun and glows more brightly than four million suns together.
Observations with INTEGRAL have confirmed the nature of hard x-ray emission from the region to be from inverse compton scattered photons accelerated in a region where two stellar winds collide.
ESA (Press Release)
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