"China's Lobster-Eye Einstein Probe: Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries"
China has launched the Einstein Probe, a telescope with a "lobster eye" camera designed to study high-energy X-rays from black holes, neutron stars, and supernovas. The mission, in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Max Planck Institute, aims to identify and study new sources of X-ray light to understand the universe's most powerful events. The probe's wide-field X-ray telescope, inspired by the lobster eye, allows it to observe a large portion of the sky at once, enabling the study of short-lived, violent cosmic events. It will also provide data to explain gravitational waves and pinpoint their origins.