The Hyades Star Cluster

New results hint at the existence of the closest Black Holes to Earth in the Hyades star cluster

Samuel Brieden, Jorge Hernández and Francisco Javier Bailén, recipients of the SEA Thesis Awards 2023

Samuel Brieden receives the SEA Thesis Award 2023 in astronomy and astrophysics

Figure 1: JWST NIRCam 3.6 μm image of HSC J2236+0032. The zoom-out image, the quasar image, and the host galaxy image after subtracting the quasar light (from left to right). The image scale in light years is indicated in each panel.

Starlight and the first black holes: researchers detect the host galaxies of quasars in the early universe

The image shows the orbits of more than 14 000 known asteroids (with the Sun at the centre of the image) based on information from Gaia’s second data release, which was made public in 2018.

The International Astronomical Union names asteroid 2001 QH220 after researcher Jordi Portell

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument sits atop the Mayall 4-Meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. DESI’s early data gathered in 2020 and 2021 is now publicly available. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects

Episode of the Podcast "La Veu Còsmica" with researcher Licia Verde (ICCUB)

‘La veu còsmica’ premieres its first episode, a podcast combining art and science

Virgo gravitational wave observatory

Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe

5 ICCUB researchers, recipients of the Consolidación Investigadora 2022 Call

5 ICCUB researchers, recipients of the Consolidación Investigadora 2022 Call

BlackGEM array at ESO's La Silla ready for observations.

BlackGEM telescopes begin hunt for gravitational-wave sources at ESO's La Silla Observatory

Premis Extraordinaris Doctorat

Albert Escrivà and Alfred Castro receive the 2022 Extraordinary PhD Prizes

Scientists have found strong evidence that supermassive stars existed within globular clusters when they formed 13 billion years ago. Here, an image of the globular cluster M13, 22 000 light years from Earth, consisting of a million stars squeezed into a space 150 light years across.

Celestial monsters at the origin of globular clusters

ICCUB-IEEC researcher Hector Gil-Marín

Héctor Gil-Marín is awarded the 2023 Leonardo Grant in Physics

Artistic rendering of a supernova and its complex environment

Understanding the origin of the most energetic stellar explosions in the Universe