Black hole boasts heavyweight jets 13 November 2013 Astronomers studying a black hole in our Galaxy with ESA's XMM-Newton observatory have made a surprising discovery about the cocktail of particles that are ejected from its surroundings. Read more

Volatile pulsar reveals millisecond missing link 25 September 2013 For the first time, astronomers have caught a pulsar in a crucial transitional phase that explains the origin of the mysterious millisecond pulsars. The discovery was made possible by the coordinated efforts of ESA's two missions that scan the high-energy sky: INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton. Read more

Weakling magnetar reveals hidden strength 14 August 2013 Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton have measured the magnetic field in a small surface feature of a magnetar for the first time. Until now, only the dipolar magnetic field of magnetars had been measured. With a new technique, the astronomers have revealed a strong, localised magnetic field in the magnetar that had the lowest dipolar field of all. Read more

XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-13) 27 August 2013 Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the thirteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-13, issued 27 August 2013. This AO covers the period May 2014 to April 2015 and is open to proposers from all over the world. The deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday, 11 October 2013, 12:00 UT. Read more

A rapidly spinning supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 1365 28 February 2013 Read more

Synchronous X-ray and Radio Mode Switches: A Rapid Global Transformation of the Pulsar Magnetosphere 25 January 2013 Read more

Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M31 12 December 2012 Read more

Neutron star masses from hydrodynamical effects in obscured sgHMXBs 09 November 2012 Read more

X-ray wind tomography of the highly absorbed HMXB IGR J17252–3616 09 November 2012 Read more