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BBXRT
(redirected from Broad Band X-ray Telescope)

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BBXRTBroad Band X-Ray Telescope


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For example, both the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and the Broad Band X-ray Telescope recorded spectra from the cores of several quasars and Seyfert galaxies.
Measuring dark matter By analyzing the X-ray spectra of a halo of hot gas gravitationally bound by the elliptical galaxy NGC 1399, astronomers using the Broad Band X-ray Telescope inferred the galaxy's amount of dark matter -- mass hidden from view because it does not radiate at any observed wavelength.
Serlemitsos, a Goddard scientist who oversaw observations with Astro's Broad Band X-ray Telescope, "there's a good case for [a black hole] in Markarian.
 
 
 
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