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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself apart long ago. The object, cataloged as M82 X-2, blazes in X-rays up to ...

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 ...