Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"—in some sense they travel faster than the speed of light.

Astronomers are building a virtual telescope as big as our planet that will capture the first ever picture outlining an enormous black hole within our galaxy.

MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov.

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays.

PORTLAND, Ore., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, today announced Relativity Media, a client of Rentrak's Box Office Essentials and OnDemand Essentials services, has expanded the relationship by signing a Digital Download Essentials contract to provide performance reporting for the studio's Internet Video-on-Demand (iVOD) and Electronic Sell-Through (EST) content.