A gif showing a yellow-wrapped spacecraft with solar-panel wings in space.Just outside Hiroya Yamaguchi’s office is a blackboard crowded with exploded stars, spaceship schematics and spectral lines. The A4 printouts obscure almost all the free space, except for a tiny corner where he sometimes scribbles in white chalk. Right now, Yamaguchi, an associate professor at Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, is standing in front of this blackboard, facing me.He’s giving me a crash course on the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or it has provided of the X-ray universe. XRISM, with its ability to see the most detailed X-ray spectra yet, hopes to carve out a similar legacy. Yamaguchi points out, however, that although Chandra and XRISM observe the same part of the . The image was snapped by Chandra in 2019.”This is my favorite object in the world,” she says excitedly.The space surrounding that black hole is a maelstrom. Simionescu’s cursor bounces around the sky as she points out the large jet emanating from the black hole as well as areas of dense gas and a long filament that stretches light-years into the cosmos. She describes a graph of the spectra observed by Chandra at M87 — all below 2 keV — and notes how it’s all “a mumbo jumbo” of emission lines from oxygen, neon, nickel and other gases.With the gate open, that would change.”You could tell what is the composition of the gas, how is it being moved, how is it being pushed out by the black hole — which is all information that, right now, you cannot get,” she says.It’s interesting to consi …
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