MAXI peers into black hole binaries
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, or MAXI for short, spends its time aboard the ISS conducting a full sky survey every 92 minutes. Its sole purpose is to monitor X-ray source activity and report. Unlike stars seen in visible light, X-ray sources arent evenly distributed and can exhibit some highly unusual behavior. What causes these erratic moments?