Scientists using NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have compared suspected neutron stars and black holes and found that the black holes behaved as if each one has an event horizon, the theoretical ...
ESA’s Integral space observatory, together with NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. This finding supports the ...
HOUSTON — NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was decommissioned this month, following a productive 16-year mission focused on the workings of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. The ...