X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like Hubble and James Webb, don't even touch that bandwidth. And Chandra, the ...
Processes in the X-ray interferometer: The path of a single photon (pink) passes through two slits simultaneously and spreads out behind them into a characteristic “interference pattern”. This pattern ...
We still know very little about giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). After 30 years of study, we don’t know precisely how these objects produce their power. This requires observations at X-ray ...