News type: Press release

  • News
    A large number of satellite galaxies could be dark INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN R. MAJEWSKI
    Some year ago, astronomers suggested the existence of huge regions of the Universe made up of a kind of matter that cannot be seen, touched or smelt, but which...
  • News
    A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
    According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...
  • News
    A look at the subatomic world from the IAC
    The second edition of the conference on Particle Physics, HC2NP2019, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, will take place next week in Puerto...
  • News
    A 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...
  • News
    A nascent star illuminated by its "neighbours"PHOTONEWS
    The above image has been chosen as 'image of the month' by the Hubble Heritage Project and 'image of the week' by the European Space Agency (ESA). It shows the...
  • News
    A near-pristine star found to be binary
    The nearly primordial origin of an ancient star of the Milky Way confirmed by an international team of researchers thanks to the ESPRESSO spectrograph. Stars...
  • News
    A new algorithm that simulates the intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds is developed
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led the development of a new numerical procedure that allows to reproduce in a few seconds with Big Data and...
  • News
    A 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...
  • News
    A new connection between supermassive black holes and galaxies in which they reside
    A fundamental connection between supermassive black holes - the most massive singular objects in our Universe - and the galaxies at whose centers these objects...