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XMM-Newton sees light echo from behind a black...
For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side.
News SciencesJuly 28, 2021 -
The mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray...
The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, astronomers have seen the entire mechanism at work – and it could be a process...
News SciencesJuly 9, 2021 -
XMM-Newton spies youngest baby pulsar ever...
An observation campaign led by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory reveals the youngest pulsar ever seen that is also a ‘magnetar’, sporting a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion...
News SciencesJune 17, 2020 -
A bent bridge between two galaxy clusters
A new study, based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories, sheds new light on a three million light-year long bridge of hot gas linking two galaxy...
News SciencesMay 11, 2020 -
Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not...
Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra and the...
News SciencesApril 8, 2020 -
Giant flare from a tiny star
An L dwarf star, a star with so little mass that it is only just above the boundary of actually being a star, caught in the act of emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays, as...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this...
News SciencesJanuary 20, 2020 -
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy...
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster – a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events.
News SciencesJanuary 10, 2020 -
Two-year extensions confirmed for ESA's...
ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has today confirmed two-year mission extensions for nine scientific missions in which the Agency is participating. This secures their...
News SciencesNovember 22, 2016 -
Surveying the extragalactic Universe
A collaboration of international research teams has published a new 3D map of galaxy clusters compiled from observations of two regions of the sky each covering 25 square degrees...
News SciencesDecember 15, 2015 -
The cosmic web: seeing what makes up the Universe
An international team observe ordinary matter in the large-scale structures that form the "cosmic web"
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyDecember 3, 2015 -
Bubbles and Filaments at the Heart of the Milky...
From the analysis of all available data collected by the satellite XMM-Newton in the range of the X-rays, an international team has established the most detailed map of the hot...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyAugust 19, 2015 -
« XMM-Newton » catalog, fifth edition !
The European satellite XMM-Newton, launched in 1999, offers to the scientists a 5th version of its catalog and a sky map, more precise than never, celestial bodies and events of...
News Sciences Specialist public, Science and technologyMay 6, 2015 -
New XMM-Newton catalogue released
The third catalogue of data from the European XMM-Newton satellite, launched in 1999, is now available to scientists along with a more precise map than ever of stars and other...
News Sciences InstitutionalAugust 1, 2013 -
XMM-Newton discover a new source of low energy...
Thanks to XMM-Newton, a X-ray astronomy European satellite, scientists from CNRS and CEA discovered a new source of cosmic rays which are different from cosmic rays known until...
News Sciences Science and technologyJune 29, 2012 -
The oldest mature cluster of galaxies
Astronomer working on data from various observatories including XMM-NEWTON discovered the oldest mature cluster of galaxies.
News Sciences Science and technologyNovember 3, 2011 -
ESA spacecraft reveals new anatomy around a black...
A fleet of spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge 'bullets' of gas...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2011 -
XMM-Newton finds 1st intermediate-mass black hole
A team of researchers supported by CNES has used the European space telescope to clearly identify a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses.
News SciencesJuly 10, 2009