Einstein Probe, however, is the first to employ lobster-eye optics in a space telescope. Its Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) borrows from the design of a lobster's eye, with hundreds of thousands ...

A diagram showing data collected by JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope revealing the distribution of matter falling into the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 4151 over a wide radius, spanning from ...

China has successfully tested the world’s first “lobster eye” space telescope that will allow scientists to capture X-ray images of the universe with unprecedented efficiency. At 500km (310 ...