Astronomers test a method for investigating cosmic inflation
A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
Astronomers witness the birth of a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe
An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still...
Astrophysicists from the IAC discover an intense wind in the neighbourhood of a black hole
The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran...
Back to the Lithium Plateau with the [Fe/H] < -6 star J0023+0307
We present an analysis of the UVES high-resolution spectroscopic observations at the 8.2m VLT of J0023+0307, an extremely iron-poor dwarf star. We are unable to...
BBVA Foundation's president, Carlos Torres Vila, visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
The president of the BBVA Foundation, Carlos Torres Vila, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma) to learn about the work being done...
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic...
Black holes modulate star formation in neighboring galaxies
Every massive galaxy hosts a black hole in its center. Both the size and the mass of these black holes is negligible compared to the host galaxy, millions of...