X-Rays From Collapsing Star Overwhelm Swift Instrument
Credit: nasa/swift/stefan immler
Early X-ray emissions from the birth of a distant black hole temporarily overwhelmed the software on NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory last month, forcing mission scientists to backtrack through the recorded data to conclude the six-year-old spacecraft had spotted the brightest X-rays ever detected...
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