Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
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The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite observes the fast-moving, high-energy worlds of black holes, neutron stars, X-ray pulsars and bursts of X-rays that light up the sky and then disappear forever.
Observations from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have been used as evidence for the existence of the frame-dragging effect predicted by the theory of general relativity.
In January 2006 it was announced that Rossi had been used to locate a candidate intermediate-mass black hole named M82 X-1.[1]. In February 2006 data from RXTE was used to prove that the diffuse background x-ray glow in our galaxy comes from innumerable, previously undetected white dwarfs and from other stars' coronae [2].
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