XMM-Newton reveals the Milky Way's explosive past 29 August 2016 A giant bubble surrounding the centre of the Milky Way shows that six million years ago our Galaxy's supermassive black hole was ablaze with furious energy. It also shines a light on the hiding place of the Galaxy's so-called 'missing' matter. Read more

Gravitational vortex provides new way to study matter close to a black hole 12 July 2016 ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a 'gravitational vortex' around a black hole. The discovery, aided by NASA's NuSTAR mission, solves a mystery that has eluded astronomers for more than 30 years and will allow them to map the behaviour of matter very close to black holes. Read more

Powerful winds spotted from mysterious X-ray binaries 28 April 2016 ESA's XMM-Newton has discovered gas streaming away at a quarter of the speed of light from very bright X-ray binaries in two nearby galaxies. Read more

Found: Andromeda's first spinning neutron star 31 March 2016 Decades of searching in the Milky Way's nearby 'twin' galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star, by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope. Read more

A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind 14 January 2016 ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars. Read more

XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-16) 23 August 2016 Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the sixteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-16, issued 23 August 2016. This AO covers the period May 2017 to April 2018 and is open to proposers from all over the world. The deadline for proposals is 7 October 2016 (12:00 UT). Read more

Black hole feedback in the luminous quasar PDS 456 20 February 2015 Read more

An Optically Obscured AGN in a Low Mass, Irregular Dwarf Galaxy: A Multi-Wavelength Analysis of J1329+3234 19 December 2014 Read more

A Hot Cocoon in the Ultralong GRB 130925A: Hints of a PopIII-like Progenitor in a Low-Density Wind Environment 11 July 2014 Read more