Less than a year after Japan's X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission launched to space, the space telescope's first results are in — and they are stunning.
The X-ray telescope, also known as XRISM, is operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with participation from the European Space Agency (ESA). Its first observations captured the structure, motion and temperature of material swirling around a supermassive black hole as well as the dynamics of supernova wreckage that marks the death of a massive star.
