Investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias coordinan la edición de “Handbook of Exoplanets”, cuatro volúmenes con 160 artículos de especialistas en...
Observaciones con el GTC de dos enanas blancas ponen a prueba la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein
Un equipo internacional, en el que ha participado el IAC, ha descubierto que las enanas blancas del sistema binario J0651 orbitan cada vez más rápido, tal y...
Observations with the VLT suggest that black holes don’t only devour cosmic dust
A study, in which the IAC is collaborating, obtains the most detailed observation yet of a black hole at the centre of a supermassive galaxy. The results...
Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
Observers find two stars so close together that they will end up by merging into one very massive star
A study of the binary system “MY Camelopardalis” published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are formed by the merging...
Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed
A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process...
The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...