SpaceX launches new X-ray satellite to study black holes and supernovas

AUSTIN (KXAN) — SpaceX's latest launch could help scientists study the origins of life in our universe.
Around midnight CST Wednesday, the agency sent NASA's newest satellite into orbit. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, will allow scientists to use X-rays to observe the black holes, quasars and supernovas."With X-rays, you see things that are the most violent dynamic things in the universe," says astronomer Michelle Thaller with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Marylan