Scientists have captured stunning new insights into one of the universe’s most powerful phenomena—black hole jets—by using a planet-sized network of radio telescopes. Focusing on Cygnus X-1, one of ...

Scientists have quantified the energy produced by the first black hole ever discovered, revealing that it spews “dancing” jets that shine as bright as thousands of suns and travel 335 million mph — ...

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is targeting Wednesday, April 8, at 8:49 a.m. EST for liftoff on a Falcon 9 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Northrop Grumman-24 (NG-24) ...

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Getting cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) is no easy task, as the recent launch of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft illustrated. Due to a thruster issue on the way to the ISS, the ...

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Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling ...

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An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

New maps reveal a vast store of hidden star-making material called “CO-dark molecular gas” in the Cygnus X region – a stellar-mass black hole and a blue supergiant star. The team traced it across ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have created the large-scale maps of carbon monoxide (CO)-dark molecular gas for the star-forming complex Cygnus X. For decades, scientists have known ...