The year 2023 has been historic in terms of space missions.
Last year, we hoisted the tricolor by landing Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon and moved towards the Sun by launching Aditya-L1.
Now the question arises what next? For 2024, Indian Space Agency ISRO has started a new mission in space on the very first day of the year.
ISRO has launched a satellite named XPoSAT into space which will reveal such secrets of the universe which are still a mystery.
Get an idea of the seriousness of this new mission of ISRO from the fact that things which you might have seen or heard only in movies, ISRO has taken steps to know them in reality.
ISRO launched the PSLV rocket on January 1, 2024 to explore many mysteries including black holes, pulsars, galaxies and radiation.
After successfully reaching the Moon in 2023, ISRO conducted its 60th flight on the first day of 2024 and successfully launched the PSLV rocket.
In this rocket, ISRO has sent the XPoSAT satellite into the low earth orbit. This is a place where the earth ends and space begins. India has become the second country in the world to do so.
First understand the mission
Indian space agency ISRO launched the PSLV-C58 mission on January 1, 2024 at 9:10 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
India’s first X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is discovering such things in space, which till now are limited to books only.
ISRO’s objective of starting this mission is to detect and understand many mysterious things including black holes, pulsars, galaxies and radiation.
In this mission, XPoSAT will collect important X-ray data, which will help in better understanding the universe. X-rays are amazing waves that come from cosmic sources.
Usually with an optical telescope we can see it as if it were a celestial body. But it is not known how it was constructed and how it behaves? Also how dangerous are they? It will detect things like explosion of stars, formation of black holes etc.
What are black holes?
Black holes are those black holes in infinite space, which are not visible. It is a place in the dark world of space which has no end.
It is believed that even light cannot pass through here. The gravitational force inside it is very strong. Its size is much larger than the Earth, the Sun or any other planet or star.
When someone comes close to it, it absorbs him inside itself. Time moves differently here. What will happen if it goes inside? This can be detected only when such an experiment is done.
Unfortunately this never happened. Black holes are such monsters of space, about which humans know very little. Scientists definitely claim that once it goes inside there is no return.
How are black holes formed?
How are black holes formed? This is also a puzzle. But according to scientists who understand it, when a star is at its last moments, it starts shrinking and then a supernova explosion occurs in it, which turns it into a black hole.
This explosion is so powerful that it is many times more powerful than the power generated by the explosion of millions of atomic bombs.