Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) are found in about 1/3 of all the galaxies in the Local Universe, establishing the most numerous class of AGNs...
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NewsA lower limit to the accretion disc radius in the active galactic nucleus NGC 1052
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NewsA mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found
The small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...
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NewsA nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
We detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...
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NewsA new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...
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NewsA new stellar site for the formation of very heavy elements
The recently discovered phosphorus-rich stars pose a challenge to stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis (that is, the formation of chemical elements in stellar...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar corona
The solar coronal heating problem originated almost 80 years ago and remains unsolved. A plausible explanation lies in mechanisms based on magnetic wave energy...
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NewsA novel black hole mass scaling relation
The confirmation of the existence of black holes is one of the most basic results in astrophysics. There is a wide range of masses of black holes, from those...