IEEC-ICCUB researcher Nadejda Blagorodnova

ICCUB-IEEC researcher Nadejda Blagorodnova ​​wins the National Youth Talent Research Award 2025

REGALADE, the most extensive galaxy catalogue

Researchers launch REGALADE: The most complete galaxy catalog for modern astronomy

High-resolution image taken with the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA, displaying the two lens galaxies in a warm tone, and the five lensed copies of SN Winny in blue.

Astronomers image and model extremely rare gravitationally lensed supernova

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the NSF NRAO is a partner

Magnetic Superhighways Discovered in a Starburst Galaxy’s Winds

Illustration of galactic runaway stars

ICCUB astronomers lead the largest study on massive runaway stars including rotation and binarity in the Milky Way

Ivan Morera at the award ceremony held at the University of Barcelona on December 16th, 2025

Ivan Morera receives the Ramon Margalef award for the discovery of a new type of magnetism

Domènec Espriu (ICCUB)

Domènec Espriu, new director of the ICCUB

This image shows the gas disc in a computer simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy from the Auriga suite. Colours represent the ratio of magnesium (Mg) to iron (Fe), revealing that the galactic centre (pink) is poor in Mg, while the outskirts (green) are Mg-rich. These chemical patterns provide important clues about how the galaxy formed.

New study sheds light on the Milky Way’s mysterious chemical history

Montage of the eight lensed quasar systems in the TDCOSMO-2025 sample. The image for DES J0408−5354 is adapted from Shajib et al. (2020), HE 0435−1223, B1608+656, and WFI 2033−4723 from Suyu et al. (2017), PG 1115+080 and SDSS J1206+4332 from Wong et al. (2020), RX J1131−1231 from Shajib et al. (2024, credits: NASA/ESA/Chandra), and WGD 2038−4008 from Shajib et al. (2022).

Cosmological tension confirmed

Three exhibitions at the Faculty of Physics celebrate the scientific and educational legacy of Assumpció Català i Poch

Three exhibitions at the Faculty of Physics celebrate the scientific and educational legacy of Assumpció Català i Poch

A train named after Assumpció Català, Spain’s first female astronomy professor

A Ferrocarrils train named after Assumpció Català i Poch, the first female astronomy professor in the State

Javier Menéndez, ICCUB

Javier Menéndez appointed corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences

The Hubble constant describes the rate at which the universe is expanding. However, current measurements do not agree on its value, which has generated an intense scientific debate known as the “Hubble tension.”

An international team led by the UB will study the validity of the current cosmological model