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.

Four lasers were directed into the skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal facility in Chile. Each ...

Students and faculty gathered in the Mahaney Arts Center last month to discuss what some describe as the most pressing issue of our time — artificial intelligence (AI) — and how the rise of its ...

An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made ...

Many binary black holes once were binary star systems. There, two stars, each more massive than our Sun, orbited each other, one after the other exploded as a supernova, and collapsed into black holes ...

The so-called “Golden Age” of theoretical black hole physics refers to the period between 1963—when Roy Kerr discovered the solution describing a rotating black hole—and 1973, when Stephen Hawking ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: ...