This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died
Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died. It was only up there a month when something went wrong. Despite attempts to regain control, Hitomi continued to spin and throw debris into space. Eventually,JAXA declared that the $273 million satellitewas beyond recovery. Some of that data is out today in anew paper in Nature, which shows Hitomis final observation. It has some fascinating implications for what we know about the role of black holes in galaxy formation....