NASA's black-hole-hunter catches its first 10 supermassive black holes
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the first telescope capable of focusing the highest-energy X-ray light into detailed pictures.