MISSION NEWS AS OF WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2018

+ XMM-NEWTON FINDS MISSING INTERGALACTIC MATERIAL
After a nearly twenty-year long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have finally found evidence of hot, diffuse gas permeating the cosmos, closing a puzzling gap in the overall budget of 'normal' matter in the Universe.
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+ STAR SHREDDED BY RARE BREED OF BLACK HOLE
ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star.
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