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X-ray astronomy is our gateway to the hot universe. More than half of thebaryons in the cosmos are too hot to be visible at shorter wavelengths.Studying the extreme environments of black hole and neutron star vicinitiesalso requires X-ray observations. With the successful launch of ISRO's AstroSatin 2015, and a few transformative results that emerged from JAXA's Hitomimission in 2016, a new window has been opened into high sensitivity fast timingand high X-ray spectral resolution. Together with upcoming all-sky surveymissions expected very soon, X-ray astronomy is entering a new era of parameterspace exploration. The UK has been at the forefront of this field since the1970s. But flat cash science budgets, compounded with the rising costs ofcutting-edge space missions, imply inevitably diminishing roles for the UK interms of both payload development and science exploitation in the future. Toreview the novel science possibilities enabled by recent and upcoming missions,and to discuss how to pave the way forward for X-ray astronomy in the UK, aspecialist RAS discussion meeting was held in London on Feb 10 2017, summarisedherein. A consolidated effort by the community to come together and workcohesively is a suggested natural first step in the current climate.

Realising the full potential of X-ray astronomy in the UK