NASA launches a campaign to hunt down black cosmic holes

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced on May 30 that it will use an ultra-modern satellite telescope in the next month to search for black holes in the universe.

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The project aims to study the 'hottest, most material and energetic phenomenon in the universe, such as black holes and explosions of massive stars' , according to Fiona Harrison of the Telescope Program. Atomic spectroscopy (NuSTAR).

The telescope is expected to be put on Earth orbit on June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands.

Cosmic black hole

'NuSTAR will open a whole new door into the universe ,' said Harrison, a professor at the California Institute of Technology and Science in Pasadena.

The telescope is expected to be launched from a rocket below an aircraft. Both Pegasus XL and Stargazer L-1011 are produced by Orbital Sciences.

The final review procedures for the flight are ready to take place on June 1, and if all goes well, the Stargazer will fly from Vandenberg air base in central California to Kwajalein on June 5 and 6. to launch missiles about a week later.

The new telescope will work in conjunction with other telescopes operating in the universe, including NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, tracking X-rays with lower energy intensity.

NuSTAR, 10 meters long, is considered to have greater performance than other glass because it has the ability to concentrate high-energy X-rays with 133 mirror pieces at each of the two optical units.

'Just 20 years ago, scientists still thought that black holes were very rare ,' Harrison told reporters. 'Today we know that every large galaxy, including our galaxy, has. a giant black hole in the heart '.