The XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) space telescope, a collaboration between JAXA, NASA, and ESA, has delivered its first extraordinary observations since its launch in 2023. These initial results offer a deeper understanding of two of the universe's most extreme phenomena: supermassive black holes and the remnants of supernovae.

Plasma produces high-energy X-ray light, and XRISM is the perfect instrument to observe that kind of light. Thus, astronomers have gained new insights into the most violent, turbu

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova remnant in unprecedented detail.