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The universe at large is flooded with supermassive black holes, weighing millions or billions of times our Sun’s mass and found in the centers of galaxies.Ī long-sought missing link is an intermediate-mass black hole, weighing in somewhere between 199 and 10,000 solar masses. It’s estimated that our galaxy is littered with 100 million small black holes (several times the mass of our Sun) created from exploded stars. Like intense gravitational potholes in the fabric of space, virtually all black holes seem to come in two sizes: small and humongous.

Koka Media, Universal Publishing Production Music France, and Universal Production MusicĪstronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of “intermediate-sized” black hole that may be lurking in the heart of the closest globular star cluster to Earth, located 6,000 light-years away. Koka Media, Universal Publishing Production Music France, and Universal Production Music Koka Media, and Universal Production Music “Claraboo” by Denis Levaillant, Jean-Marc Foltz. Killer Tracks, Open Note, and Universal Production Music “Cascades” by Air Jared, Sebastian Barnaby Robertson. Over a decade ago, when she was new to the job, she had a special project related to the Hubble Space Telescope and its fifth and final servicing mission. Paula Cain is one of the talented thermal blanket technicians who uses her skillful hands to correctly cover all sorts of spacefaring instruments. Its 18 hexagonal segments are made of lightweight beryllium coated with pure gold.NASA’s Thermal Blanket Lab is a vital part of ensuring that the important equipment that we send into space remains protected from getting either too hot or too cold. 7–8 January 2022: Deployment of the two side panels forming JWST’s 6.5m primary mirror.6 January 2022: Deployment of the 1.2m x 2.4m Aft Deployable Instrument Radiator (ADIR), which radiates heat from the space telescope’s science instruments into space.The foldable structure supporting it has been dubbed “the world’s most sophisticated tripod”. 5 January 2022: JWST’s 74cm convex secondary mirror is deployed.While the Sun-facing side endures temperatures up to 90☌, the shielded side will be as cold as –230☌. 3–4 January 2022: The five Kapton layers of Webb’s sunshield are tensioned.30–31 December 2021: Sunshield mid-booms are extended on either side, pulling the folded sunshield layers with them, to form the first part of its distinctive 21m x 14m kite shape.

29 December 2021: The Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA) is raised by 1.2m for better thermal isolation and to give room for the sunshield to unfold in front and behind.

28 December 2021: The Forward Unitized Pallet Structure (UPS), which supports and contains the five folded layers forming the front half of the sunshield, is lowered into place.

26 December 2021: Deployment of the high-gain communications antenna, which allows communication with Earth through NASA’s Deep Space Network.

The telescope can now switch from battery power to its own power.

25 December 2021, 12:48 UT Deployment of JWST’s 6m, five-panel solar array, which delivers about 1Kw of power.

25 December 2021, 12:20 UT: JWST launches from the Guiana Space Centre on an Ariane 5 rocket after 27 minutes, it separates from the launcher’s upper stage to travel to L2 alone.

Here's a timeline of how it all took place.