Hidden features uncovered in X-ray signals are set to overturn a key scientific theory and fundamentally change how X-rays ...

A new critical point in water has been discovered by Stockholm University physicists, explaining some of water’s strangest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together. The technique, known as X-ray four-wave mixing, ...

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 ...