{"id":190328,"date":"2024-05-29T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/iron-fingerprints-in-nearby-active-galaxy"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:23:04","slug":"iron-fingerprints-in-nearby-active-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/iron-fingerprints-in-nearby-active-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iron-fingerprints-in-nearby-active-galaxy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC4151.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXRISM\u2019s Resolve instrument captured a detailed spectrum of the area around the black hole,\u201d said Brian Williams, NASA\u2019s project scientist for the mission at the agency\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cThe peaks and dips are like chemical fingerprints that can tell us what elements are present and reveal clues about the fate of matter as it nears the black hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>XRISM (pronounced \u201ccrism\u201d) is led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in collaboration with NASA, along with contributions from ESA (European Space Agency). It launched Sept. 6, 2023. NASA and JAXA developed Resolve, the mission\u2019s microcalorimeter spectrometer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC4151. \u201cXRISM\u2019s Resolve instrument captured a detailed spectrum of the area around the black hole,\u201d said Brian Williams, NASA\u2019s project scientist for the mission at the agency\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}