Audience: Undergraduate

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    Post-common envelope binaries as the precursors of extremely red old stars
    Modelling dust formation in single stars evolving through the carbon-star stage of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) (i.e., the late evolutionary stages of Sun...
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    Powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole
    The supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies have a basic influence on their evolution. This happens during a phase in which the black hole is...
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    Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays
    Classical novae are cataclysmic binary star systems in which the matter of a companion star is accreted on a white dwarf. Accumulation of hydrogen in a layer...
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    Rapid quasi-periodic oscillations in a relativistic jet
    Active galactic nuclei (AGN) consist of a supermassive black hole fed by the circumnuclear material close to the galaxy center. Around 10% of the AGNs develop a...
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    Red nuggets at the center of nearby galaxies
    The “Lambda Cold Dark Matter” (CDM) cosmological model is the current theory credited for reproducing the physics responsible for the formation and evolution of...
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    Relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy
    When matter falls into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, it unleashes enormous amounts of energy and is called active galactic nuclei (or AGN...
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    Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31
    In the 90s, the COBE satellite discovered that not all the microwave emission from our Galaxy behaved as expected. Part of this signal was later assigned to a...