Black holes (BHs) are the pinnacle of extreme gravity. They are responsible for the most violent phenomena observed in the Universe, from long gamma-ray bursts, tidal disruption events to gravitational waves (GW). Despite the recent growth in extragalactic BH discoveries by LIGO-VIRGO, our knowledge of the seed BH population is severely hindered by

The magnetic field is the main driver of the spectacular activity of the solar atmosphere, which covers the photosphere, chromosphere, transition region, and corona. This is true also for many other stars, although it is in the Suns atmosphere where we can observe the consequences of the interaction between an astrophysical plasma and its magnetic

The TANNHAUSER project is a public-private collaboration initiative in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates as a collaborating partner. Its main objective is to develop and integrate an advanced optical communications system into the Nasmyth platform of the Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT), located at the Teide

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a world-class scientific infrastructure that will be built at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). Featuring a 4.2-metre primary mirror and advanced adaptive optics systems, EST will be the largest solar telescope in Europe and one of the most advanced in the world for studying the Sun’s

The purpose of the aid is to train doctors through the financing of employment contracts, under the form of a predoctoral contract, so that the predoctoral research staff in training can carry out a doctoral thesis associated with a research project financed by the aid for R&D projects of the State Subprogram for Knowledge Generation within the

SUBSTELLAR project is aimed at mining the Euclid Telescope surveys for pushing the frontier of knowledge in substellar science. The first challenge of the project is to identify, based on Euclid data, an unprecedented large number (>1.000.000) of very low mass (VLM) stars and Substellar-mass Objects (SMOs), including hard to find objects such as