Over 13 billion years of cosmic history hinge on one extraordinary fact: a black hole weighing up to 300 million Suns was already fully formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. Its light has ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors picked up the signature of a collision 7 billion light years away. Two black holes had ...

ESO's original GRAVITY interferometer had operated since 2016, incorporating a cryogenically cooled Beam Combining Instrument ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile.

Abstract: Storage resources are essential in heterogeneous multi-cloud environments. In response to the growing demand for efficient storage resource management (SRM) in these environments, this paper ...