Student-Built Instrument Onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx Detects Newly Flaring Black Hole
As well as suffer one of the spaciest gens to exist , NASA’sOSIRIS - REx missionhas a groundbreaking aim – to bring back a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth . legal instrument onboard the orbiting space vehicle have been helping scientists to identify thebest positionto collect this sampling from . Last fall , one of these instruments , the shoe - boxwood - sized Regolith X - Ray Imaging Spectrometer ( REXIS ) , made an unexpected detection off the limb of Bennu : a newly irrupt black hole , 30,000 light - years aside ....