light - In the chromoscope, what is the X-ray source between Ophiuchus, Libra and Scorpius?

I have absolutely no idea what the object is. Well, my guess was Scorpius X-1, but I haven't been able to prove or disprove that, so I'll leave that out for now.

The X-ray source is extremely bright; it dominates that region of the sky. In front of it, however, is a thick lined-shape object, in black. Unfortunately, I don't have a true X-ray baseline because of all the background radiation; however, my guess is that black represents a region practically devoid of X-rays - or a region where X-rays are blotted out. Therefore, I hypothesize that the black band is a disk surrounding the object - not necessarily an accretion disk - that is blotting out X-rays.

The circular formations in the hydrogen-$alpha$ spectrum appear to be unrelated. I have
three reasons to believe this.

• They're around stars. Switch quickly to the visible-light image, and you'll find that there appear to be visible-light sources, presumably stars, near the center of these formations. I suspect these are nebulae, reflecting some light from the stars.


• They're not unique. These objects are in many parts of the sky, mostly around stars.


• They're not properly aligned with the X-ray source. If these were polar jets, bipolar outflows, or something else related to the X-ray source's axis, they should be emitted at roughly right angles to the disk. This is clearly not the case; they are at perhaps 30 degree angles with respect to the disk.