The universe as we know it is huge, and we will probably never be able to understand it all, but a small portion of it has been revealed with the help of the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which has created the most detailed X-ray map of the universe. Millions of x-rays away.
Between December 2019 and June 2020, eROSITA identified more than 900,000 unique sources (stars, galaxies, black holes) in the X-ray band, thus creating a map. The telescope is designed to scan the entire sky in the X-ray region, ultimately providing two different images.
Such maps allow scientists to use telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to choose new targets for observation, allowing us to analyze the universe more deeply. eROSITA X-ray telescope More than 170 million X-rays were performed during the period under review, which formed the map. According to the researchers, this mission has detected more in six months than major missions like XMM-Newton and Chandra have observed in nearly 25 years of operations.
