Giant 'chimneys' vent x-rays from Milky Way's core 20 March 2019 By surveying the centre of our Galaxy, ESA's XMM-Newton has discovered two colossal 'chimneys' funneling material from the vicinity of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole into two huge cosmic bubbles. Read more

Active galaxies point to new physics of cosmic expansion 28 January 2019 Investigating the history of our cosmos with a large sample of distant 'active' galaxies observed by ESA's XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers found there might be more to the early expansion of the Universe than predicted by the standard model of cosmology. Read more

Team of telescopes finds X-ray engine inside mysterious supernova 10 January 2019 ESA's high-energy space telescopes INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton have helped to find a source of powerful X-rays at the centre of an unprecedentedly bright and rapidly evolving stellar explosion that suddenly appeared in the sky earlier this year. Read more

XMM-Newton captures final cries of star shredded by black hole 09 January 2019 Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have studied a black hole devouring a star and discovered an exceptionally bright and stable signal that allowed them to determine the black hole's spin rate. Read more

From gamma rays to X-rays: new method pinpoints previously unnoticed pulsar emission 21 November 2018 Based on a new theoretical model, a team of scientists explored the rich data archive of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra space observatories to find pulsating X-ray emission from three sources. Read more

Tracing the Universe: X-ray survey supports standard cosmological model 04 October 2018 Scanning the sky for X-ray sources, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has been busy with the XXL Survey, its largest observational programme to date. The second batch of data from the survey has just been released, including information on 365 galaxy clusters, which trace the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution through time, and on 26 000 active galactic nuclei (AGN). 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