Radio Echoes of a Black Hole Feeding on a Star Detected
Signals suggest a black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up. On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network…
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Unusual X-Ray Lines Provide New Clues on the Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not…
NASA DXL Sounding Rocket Solves One Cosmic Mystery, Reveals Another
New research confirms some of our ideas about where cosmic X-rays come from and reveals an entire group of X-rays that don’t come from any…
New X-ray Tool Better Pinpoints the Arrival Time of X-ray and Other Laser Pulses
In a newly published study, scientists from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory detail a new set of tools that better pinpoint the arrival time of…
X-Rays Reveal More of Fossil Record
Soft tissues, like skin and feathers, aren’t usually part of the fossil record, but a new technique has found a way to bring some of…
Exploring Chemical Changes at the Molecular Scale
Using X-ray emission spectroscopy, a team of researchers reveal chemical information about molecules before they are destroyed. Research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrates that…
The Z Machine Generates Pressures so Intense That It Can Melt Diamonds
Diamond is one of the toughest, naturally occurring materials found on Earth. Now, the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, can…
“Pump-Probe” Technique Explores How Molecules Respond to Light
After exciting small, light-sensitive hydrocarbon molecules with light from an ultraviolet laser, Scientists at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source then made quadrillionths-of-a-second snapshots of the…
Physicists Generate Laser-Like Beams of X-Rays from a Tabletop Device
Physicists have generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, opening the door for devices that may be used by scientists to…
LCLS Analyzes Tiny Protein Crystals
By using the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford to analyzed tiny protein crystals, scientists demonstrated the potential of free-electron lasers for obtaining the structures…
LCLS Low-Energy Test Just Shy of the 284-Electronvolt Carbon Edge
A recent low energy test with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source proved that the X-ray laser could dip more deeply into the so-called “water window,”…
TEM Based Data Collection Technique Maps Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
Viewing nanoparticles in three dimensions may soon be possible in labs all around the world. Instead of relying on traditional nanocrystallography techniques and the powerful…
4D Imaging of Breathing Lungs
A new 4D dynamic functional lung imaging method developed by engineers at Monash University will allow health professionals a chance to study breathing lungs in…
Spacecraft to Explore Supermassive Black Holes at Center of Galaxies
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that will be launched later this month has a modest budget…
NASA’s NuSTAR is One Step Closer to Launching
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…