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

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

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

GRAVITY+ Project: This project, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, combines the four 8m ESO Very ...

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

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

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

A recent laser trial at theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile marks a groundbreaking step in the field of optical ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...