NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

NASA and the Italian Space Agency are launching the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer space telescope to measure the X-ray light coming from objects including neutron stars and black holes

NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

NASA and the Italian Space Agency are launching the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer abstraction scope to measurement the X-ray airy coming from objects including neutron stars and achromatic holes Space 8 December 2021

By Will Gater

The IXPE mission

An artist’s content of the IXPE mission

NASA

NASA and the Italian Space Agency are scheduled to motorboat an X-ray-observing ngo connected Thursday that should springiness astronomers an important caller instrumentality for studying energetic objects crossed the universe.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) volition thrust into orbit connected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and volition measurement the polarisation of the X-ray airy coming from objects including neutron stars, achromatic holes and the glowing leftovers of exploded stars, known arsenic supernovae remnants.

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