The two ICCUB researchers explain black hole's origins, formation and nature to the newspaper. The article is framed in this week's revelation of the first picture of a black hole, which was made on Wednesday by the Event Horizon Telescope

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Licia Verde has been awarded the Premi Nacional de Recerca 2018 and this article describes her scientific career and the obstacles that this entails.

The article highlights the utilization of neutrinos to perform the first analysis of the Earth density. This technique has been feasible thanks to the collaboration with the IceCube experiment.

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Jorge Nuñez was interviewed to give his point of view about the origin of the first known interstellar asteroid that has passed next to the Earth, Oumuamua. Regarding a recently published article, this asteroid has a misterious origin, that some media speculate it could be part of extraterrestrial activity. J. Nuñez, as an expert, explains why this hypothesis is or not trustworthy.

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Last June, the series «Universo sostenible» starts through the program «La aventura del saber» from «La 2». «Universo sostenible» is a science dissemination series where university researchers talk about scientific issues with social interest. The ninth chapter named « Universo sostenible: ¿cuánto brillan las estrellas?», was devoted to astrophysics. The participants were Francesca Figueras, professor and member of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB, IEEC-UB), and president of the Spanish Society of Astronomy (SEA); Ana Ulla, professor of the Applied Physics Department of the University of Vigo; Alicia Sintes, professor of Theoretical Physics and Principal Investigator in the LIGO scientific collaboration LIGO in the University of the Balearic Islands; Ute Lisenfeld, professor of the Theoretical and Cosmos Physics in the University of Granada, and Enric Pallé, member of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics of the University of La Laguna.

In the chapter, Figueras talks about Gaia catalogue, which is being built from data obtained by the Gaia satellite in a five-year period. It will allow us to have access for the first time to a 3d map of the Milky Way. The professor states, «in 2018 Gaia has supplied the position of 1.400 million of stars. The challenge is processing 10^12 images, 100 TB of data compiled during the five years of the mission». All the Gaia data are processed in five centres, one of them is located in Barcelona: The Barcelona Supercomuting Center (BSC-CNS).

«Universo sostenible», an audiovisual project of the CRUE Spanish Universities

«Universo sostenible», is an initiative of the audiovisual and multimedia working group of the communication commission of the Spanish universities CRUE. It has been produced by 27 universities. The series consist in two seasons of twelve chapters everyone. It has a magazine format and allows to the audience to interact with them through the red button of their smart television. It permits the researchers to check the reaction to their ideas. The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Microsoft Corporation collaborated with the production.