The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network, which was inaugurated at the Teide Observatory in October 2014.

CMB foregrounds brought together specialists from several scientific institutions in Europe, Asia, and America who made contacts with a view to future collaborations with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have thought out a strategy which could lead to a triplication in the number of known stellar mass black holes.

The Department of Education and Universities (CEU) of the Government of the Canaries, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence, are starting again with joint activities for promoting astronomy, based on the natural resource of the Canary skies, and coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the pioneering “Law of the Sky”.

One of the aims of this meeting, which will take place during this week in La Laguna, is to anlayze the current state of the research which is looking for primordial gravitational waves generated a fractio of a second after the Big Bang, and which would serve as a test of the standard model of moden cosmology.

A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has caused the merging of two galaxies on the smallest scale so far known.