Japan's $273 million black hole-hunting satellite has broken up into 'multiple pieces'

A satellite that was supposed to scrutinize some of the biggest secrets of the universe is nowhere to be found. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that it has lost contact with its "Hitomi" satellite — a state-of-the-art X-ray observatory, developed in conjunction with NASA, to spy on energetic processes in space including black holes, massive galaxies, and exploding stars. The Japanese space agency announced...
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