There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen)

Black holes, those "cosmic ghosts" on which literature and cinema have based many of their stories, were no longer so mysterious when Phil Charles, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), found in 1992, along with the IAC researcher Jorge Casares, the first empirical evidence of their existence in the Milky Way. From that moment, everything changed in the field of High Energy Astrophysics. Even today, he continues to investigate these binary systems, although he is also interested in all cosmic objects that are X-ray sources. Linked to the Instituto de

The IAC is taking part in this multidisciplinary event, which will take place on December 16th and 17th in the El Tanque cultural space in Santa Cruz with a talk and an audiovisual show related to astrophysics.

As a "theoretical scientist", Yakiv Pavlenko develops models to interpret and explain qualitatively and quantitatively observed phenomenahea. Physics graduated from the University of Kiev (Ukraine) in 1976 and Doctors in Astrophysics from the Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics of Estonia in 1982, Pavlenko devotes most of his time to theoretical modeling and interpretation of stellar spectra. He is an expert in radiative transfer and the physics of the formation of atomic and molecular lines in the stellar atmospheres. Since 1989, he has been collaborating with the research

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the RIKEN Centre for Advanced Photonics signed, on Monday, at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna, Tenerife, an agreement for scientific collaboration in the installation, at the Teide Observatory, (Izaña, Tenerife) of the GroundBIRD experiment, a new radiotelescope for cosmological studies. This experiment is designed to measure from the ground the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) in order to look for observational evidence, by detecting the B-modes, of cosmic Inflationan epoch of accelerated expansion in the

Outstanding professionals from the "III Programme for Brazilian Leaders" organized by the Council Spain-Brazil Foundation visited, during December 12th and 13th, the headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísisca de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna, and the Teide Observatory in Izaña (Tenerife). The Secretary General of the Foundation, Rafael Dezcallar Mazarredo and the participants in this third edition, Carlos E. Higa Matsumoto, Deputy Director for International Affairs in the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications; Daniela Lazzaro, joint director and Head of