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eROSITA Data

February 6 , 2024 164 days 283 0
  • Scientists have unveiled the largest ever X-ray map of the universe and found over 9,00,000 high-energy cosmic sources.
  • The German "eROSITA" consortium published the data collected by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Russian-German satellite Spektrum-RG.
  • The first eROSITA All-Sky Survey Catalogue (eRASS1) is the largest collection of X-ray sources ever published.
  • Around 7,10,000 supermassive black holes are in distant galaxies.
  • The high-energy cosmic sources (more than 900,000) also comprised 180,000 stars that emitted X-rays.
  • In addition to this, 12,000 clusters of galaxies and a number of X-ray emitting celestial objects are from other exotic classes.

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