A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...

Brookhaven researchers combine AI and physics to improve 3D X-ray tomography for nanoscale imaging. Read more.

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. And when these “supermassive” black holes start to ...

Picture of the experimental hall showing the target interaction chamber on the left, the collection vacuum tube and the detector on the right side. Credit: Gianluca Gregori. Researchers at the ...

Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group from Nagoya University in Japan has created a deformable mirror that ...

"For XRISM, Cygnus X-3 is a Goldilocks target." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from a faint outsider to one of the most closely watched visitors in the Solar System, and now astronomers have effectively given it X-ray vision. By turning space ...