Satellite Observing Black Holes

dragoness.ai writes: "If you have ever wondered how we get all the info on the million light-years away black holes, neutron stars, pulsars...then you should find out more about the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and its mission."

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What about Chandra?

[Man of E]

RXTE is a pretty old satellite. From the page, I see it has given great results and continues to do so. That's pretty neat.
Still, I recently read about another x-ray satellite out there that's newer and likely to be still more important for future x-ray imaging. Chandra observatory was launched by NASA not long ago. You can get more information at chandra.harvard.edu.
Feel free to check out both pages and see the differences between RXTE and Chandra.