On March 4, according to foreign media reports, on Thursday, local time, Germany announced the suspension of scientific research cooperation with Russia in the field of space and closed the black hole telescope on Russian satellites. The telescope mapped the largest cosmic black hole in history p> < p > < / P > < p > the black hole search telescope, called erosita, was launched from Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan in 2019 with the Russian made spectrum roentgen gamma satellite. The mission was jointly funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) p> < p > on Thursday, a spokesman for the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics in Germany, which built and operated eosita, confirmed that the telescope "was placed in safe mode during contact with the ground on Saturday, February 26." p> < p > the day before that, the German Federal Ministry of education and research announced on February 25 that it would immediately stop all existing and long-standing scientific research cooperation with Russia. DLR issued its own statement on Thursday, confirming that it would suspend all cooperative relations with Russia p> < p > Germany cooperated with Russia on the Bion m mission in 2013, launching 45 mice and several lizards, fish and snails into space for a one month space trip. The two countries have also cooperated in the development of robot technology for space exploration p> < p > most importantly, Germany is the largest contributor to the budget of the European Space Agency (ESA) and a partner in the construction and operation of the international space station. At present, German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, together with Russian astronauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton shkaplerov, are stationed at the orbital outpost. However, Russia has previously said that it does not intend to cooperate with western countries in space exploration efforts outside the international space station in the future p> < p > meanwhile, NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari and Thomas Mashburn were also on board. (small) < / P > < p >