During a recent visit, Professor Clive Roberts, Executive Dean (Science), met with Japanese partners to develop research ...

Small black holes making a meal out of companion stars are surprisingly messy eaters, astronomers using a Japanese space telescope have discovered. Scientists have known for some time that when ...

The cutting-edge XRISM satellite has revealed small black holes don't accrete matter as expected - a finding that could have implications for entire galaxies. (Nanowerk News) When stellar-mass black ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) ...

The recent findings from theXRISM spacecraft—launched by JAXA in collaboration with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)—highlight the mission’s ability to detect and distinguish between different ...

The cosmic couple Cygnus X-3 intrigues researchers. Located 32,000 light-years away, this system, composed of a compact object suspected to be a black hole and a massive star, is revealing more about ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray ...

The Japan-led XRISM observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky. (NASA image) (NASA) – The Japan-led ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray ...

Data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes. Some of the first data from an international space ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In 1970, NASA launched its first Earth-orbiting satellite solely dedicated to the study of cosmic X-ray sources. This pioneering spacecraft was named Uhuru, a Swahili word meaning "freedom" by ...