X-ray echoes reveal 3D structure of molecular clouds in our galaxy's center
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
Child's chest X-ray accidentally reveals a coin in stomach that had been there for days
The chest X-ray of a one-and-a-half-year-old child shows a coin in the digestive tract. Photo: Sina Weibo. A doctor in ...
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Mysterious x-ray flashes are accelerating in a black hole
Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.
Researchers create world's brightest X-ray source with high-power laser beam and novel metal foams
By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore ...
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Frothy silver foam and fusion-grade lasers create world's brightest X-ray
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
You have X-ray vision if you can spot all three differences in under 9 seconds
Find out whether you've got super X-ray vision with crazily hard spot the difference that will have you racing against the ...
X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously
Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's edge.
Stars Being Scouted For Ideal Habitable Zone Conditions By Chandra X-ray Telescope
The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...
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Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy is once again surprising scientists. In 2018, a black hole called 1ES 1927+654, ...