NASA launches new x-ray telescope designed to unravel mysteries of black holes
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In the early morning hours of December 9, NASA launched its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, or IXPE, to measure X-rays released by extreme cosmic objects -- black holes and neutron stars.
The satellite successfully launched at 1 a.m. ET Thursday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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