Astronomers Unveil Most Detailed X-ray Universe Map, Revealing Over 900,000 Cosmic Objects

The eROSITA telescope's groundbreaking survey detected more than 170 million X-ray photons, surpassing previous missions' discoveries and potentially unveiling a piece of the cosmic web.

• Astronomers have created the most detailed X-ray map of the universe ever, revealing over 900,000 stars, galaxies, and black holes.
• The eROSITA All-Sky Survey catalog, part of a mission that scanned the sky from December 2019 to June 2020, detected more than 170 million X-ray photons.
• This groundbreaking survey has identified a vast number of supermassive black holes and may have discovered a piece of the cosmic web connecting galaxy clusters.
• The eROSITA telescope's findings surpass the discoveries made by previous flagship X-ray missions over nearly 25 years of operation.
• Researchers have submitted over 50 new scientific papers based on the latest data, adding to the more than 200 papers already published on prior eROSITA discoveries.

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