Despite torrents of high-energy radiation, physicists have captured images of explosions that lead to some of the world’s most powerful bursts of X rays. The snapshots reveal previously unseen details of fiery disintegrations at the core of a giant, energy-focusing machine called Z. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M.,
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