Researchers at TU Wien and UC San Diego have created the first continuously tunable X-ray harmonic source, sliding smoothly ...

Special Colloquium Wednesday, May 21 4 p.m. Coburn 140 Title: The X-ray Sky in High Definition: 25 Years of Astrophysics with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Speaker: Pat Slane, Chandra Director ...

This image shows a collection of 25 new space images celebrating the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 25th anniversary. Starting from the upper left, and going across each row, the objects imaged are: Crab ...

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has released its second major public data ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies ...

Harnessing the power of the sun holds the promise of providing future societies with energy abundance. To make this a reality, fusion researchers need to address many technological challenges. For ...

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A new set of computer simulations may finally explain several long-standing mysteries surrounding gigantic radio "relics" ...

X-ray spectroscopy has emerged as a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, enabling direct measurement of the physical conditions in hot cosmic plasmas. By dispersing or calorimetrically measuring ...

Explore black hole discovery in astrophysics, from hidden stellar remnants to supermassive giants, and learn how scientists detect these invisible cosmic objects using light and gravitational waves.