The nature of \(\chi_{c1}\left(3872\right)\) and \(T_{cc}^+\left(3875\right)\)

Two decades ago the \(\chi_{c1}\left(3872\right)\) was discovered in the hadron spectrum with two heavy quarks. The discovery fueled a surge in experimental research, uncovering dozens of so called XYZ exotics states lying outside the conventional quark model, as well as theoretical investigations into new forms of matter, such as quark-gluon hybrids, mesonic molecules, and tetraquarks, with the potential of disclosing new information about the fundamental strong force. Among the XYZs, the \(\chi_{c1}\left(3872\right)\) and \(T_{cc}^+\left(3875\right)\) stand out for their striking characteristics and unlashed many discussions about their nature. Here, we address this question using the Born--Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory (BOEFT) and show how QCD settles the issue of their composition. Not only we describe well the main features of the \(\chi_{c1}\left(3872\right)\) and \(T_{cc}^+\left(3875\right)\) but obtain also model independent predictions in the bottomonium sector. This opens the way to systematic applications of BOEFT to all XYZs.