Electron filmed for the first time

It is now possible to see a movie of an electron. This movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed. With the aid of newly developed technology for generating short pulses from intense laser light, which is needed in order to capture these rapid events, scientists have moreover succeeded in guiding the motion of the electron so that they can capture a collision between an electron and an atom on film. Scientists can now study how electrons behave when they collide and also hope to find out more about what happens with the rest of the atom when an inner electron leaves it, for instance how and when the other electrons fill in the gap that is created.

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