CHina X-ray astronomy satellite Huiyan to help find black holes

[BHarwana]

China's first X-ray astronomy satellite "Huiyan" that went into orbit on June 15 last year was officially brought into service on Tuesday.

Xiang Libin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the delivery marks the start of new scientific research. He also urged broader international cooperation and data sharing to promote breakthroughs in China's astronomical studies.

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) completed months of on-orbit testing with excellent results as most indicators exceeded design targets.

Huiyan, the Chinese word for "insight," helped define the energy level of a newly discovered gravitational wave created by the collision of two neutron stars last year. The satellite in cooperation with other observatories located the source of the wave some 130 million light years away.

The telescope is tasked with studying the properties of transient X-ray sources in great detail and the circumstances in which emissions are generated. It will also help create a high precision X-ray map of the sky and could find previously undiscovered black holes in the Milky Way, and perhaps even new types of objects.





https://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2018/01-30/290712.shtml

 

[Menthol]

Space exploration technology seems to be useless now.

It will depend on human fantasy and needs to explorer space.

If human finally found an advanced space faring alien, thing will be interesting and accelerated fast.

 

[Huan]

Space exploration technology seems to be useless now.

It will depend on human fantasy and needs to explorer space.

If human finally found an advanced space faring alien, thing will be interesting and accelerated fast.

We humans really need an advanced alien civilization to find us, visit us, and help us with space travel technology.

 

[GS Zhou]

We humans really need an advanced alien civilization to find us, visit us, and help us with space travel technology.

Why you think the "advanced alien civilization" could "help us" after they "find and visit us"? At least per the human being own history, it is more likely to be "kill us" and "exploit us". See the history of European "find and visit" North/South America.

 

[Huan]

Why you think the "advanced alien civilization" could "help us" after they "find and visit us"? At least per the human being own history, it is more likely to be "kill us" and "exploit us". See the history of European "find and visit" North/South America.

Because I think by now, they understood how difficult it is to find a handful of intelligent life throughout the universe and it is far too precious to destroy an intelligent species. It is possible that they think it's an opportunity for them to establish diplomatic and trade relations at an interstellar level. Like the One Belt One Road initiative at a galactic scale.