China launches first X-ray telescope to study black holes

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China today successfully launched its first X-ray space telescope to help scientists study the evolution of black holes, strong magnetic fields, and gamma-ray bursts. The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed ‘Insight’, via a long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert, was launched into an orbit of 550 […]

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June 15, 2017 at 08:30AM