Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe

BBC ^ | 19 Jun, 2020 | Jonathan Amos

[MtnClimber]

Behold the hot, energetic Universe. A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays. The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where matter is being accelerated, heated and shredded.

Feasting black holes, exploding stars, and searingly hot gas.

The data comes from the eRosita instrument mounted on Spektr-RG. This orbiting telescope was launched in July last year and despatched to an observing position some 1.5 million km from Earth. Once commissioned and declared fully operational in December, it was left to slowly rotate and scan the depths of space.

eRosita's first all-sky data-set, represented in the image at the top of this page, was completed only last week. It records over a million sources of X-rays.

"That's actually pretty much the same number as had been detected in the whole history of X-ray astronomy going back 60 years. We've basically doubled the known sources in just six months," said Kirpal Nandra

[MtnClimber]

Photo is at the top of the linked article.

[dp0622]

It looks like a potato that’s gone bad.

[Fungi]

I can’t breathe after seeing that.

[Auntie Mame]

Where’s the sun?

[Telepathic Intruder]

The extreme violence of the universe's rare anomalies is only matched by its utter boredom in the empty spaces between. Perhaps Q said it best:

It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross.

[Telepathic Intruder]

[Bullish]

Ahhh Geeze, universal warming. We’re all gonna’ die!

[Lisbon1940]

Same universe viewed in the x-ray spectrum.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I couldn't find it at the BBC. Found it here
links to the high res on the left with low res on the page
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/7461950/erass1-presskit

[CharleysPride]

Right in the center!

Lol.

Probably a little right and down from center.

[Hot Tabasco]

It’s way beyond my comprehension......

[PIF]

[trebb]

I can't breathe....

I'm always amazed at the scope and beauty of what God has wrought....and our growing, but still puny, efforts to grasp it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[SunkenCiv]

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[BraveMan]

Interesting Halton Arp dissertation on your link . . .

[Nateman]

The activity running from top to bottom in the center must be due to the massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. As matter circles around the drain and heats up it gets so hot that some of it escapes through the axis of rotation squeezed by the magnetic field lines . From there it bursts outward at near light speed where the high vacuum it encounters gradually slows it down after traveling thousands of light years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I think you're the first to notice that in a long while. :^)

[Steve Van Doorn]

Dr. Robitaille says these pictures are greatly falsified(not his words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZx0ddrIWY