Domènec Espriu (ICCUB)

Prof. Domènec Espriu designated director of the State Research Agency

All-sky map of the Milky Way in motion using the Gaia data. Areas with significant motion are shown in black/purple and those with relatively low motion in yellow. A number of large scale filamentary disc structures are evident about the midplane. The map also shows the Magellanic Clouds and their connecting stellar bridge to left, while the Sgr dwarf galaxy currently being torn apart can be seen on the right (main body).

Unveiling substructures at the edge of the Galaxy

Fig 1. In this image we can observe how adding the extra “slope” parameter puts a stringent constraint on the cosmological parameters that accurately match the results produced by Full Modelling.

Bridging the divide between theoretical and observational cosmology

Launch Event, December 6th, 2021 at 4 pm

The Quantum Master Barcelona is taking part in the QTOM European collaboration

Welcome!

Ten researchers are joining the ICCUB

Licia Verde is awarded the Rei Jaume I award

Licia Verde is granted the 2021 Rei Jaume I Award for Basic Research

Dr Raimon Luna

Raimon Luna has received the XVII Ramon Margalef Second Prize

Artist’s impression of the black hole in NGC 1850 distorting its companion star

Black hole found hiding in star cluster outside our galaxy

The image shows the 90 binary-system mergers that have been observed so far by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detector network. Each box represents one event, with its name reported at the bottom of the box. The masses of the merging objects (either black holes or neutron stars) as well as the final merged object are indicated in solar masses. The colour of each box highlights in which of the three observing runs the event was detected: O1, in 2015-16; O2, in 2016-17; and O3, in 2019-20. The increase

35 new spacetime quakes detected by Virgo and LIGO

Dr. Chervin Laporte (ICCUB-IEEC)

Chervin Laporte begins studying the formation of the Milky Way with an ERC Starting Grant

WEAVE's fibre positioner after being unpacked at the WHT. In the centre of the image one of the MOS fibre plates can be seen, surrounded by three layers of parked fibre ends and, around these, the fin-like fibre-retractor boxes.

The William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) is now being installed at the WHT in La Palma

LHCb experiment

New tests of lepton universality show the same pattern as deviations seen in previous results.