The Spektr-RG spacecraft, illustrated here, carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope https://www.flickr.com/photos/dlr_de/48092029201/in/album-72157709154538987/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
The widest X-ray survey of the night sky has revealed some of the most extreme and violent processes in the universe, from forbidden stars to pulsating supermassive black holes, as well as tracing the universe’s overall web-like structure.
The eROSITA X-ray telescope, which was launched aboard the Russian-German Spektr-RG space observatory in 2019, is designed to capture the broadest and most sensitive view of the universe…
