The @eROSITA_SRG consortium has unleashed the colossal first #eROSITA X-ray telescope data release to the public with a record-breaking 900,000 cosmic sources & ~50 scientific publications.
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Among the 900,000 sources more than 700,000 are supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies, 180 000 X-ray emitting stars in our own Milky Way, 12,000 clusters of galaxies, plus a small number of other exotic classes of sources like X-ray emitting binary stars, supernova remnants, pulsars, and other objects.!
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Read the full press-release here: https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7989698/news20240131?c=260780