X-ray Astronomy
Swift’s Science
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Originally designed as a satellite dedicated to studying GRBs — gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos —…
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The Swift Spacecraft
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Swift launched into orbit on Nov. 20, 2004, as NASA’s Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. In 2018, NASA renamed the spacecraft in…
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Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole
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International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never…
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