Omega Centauri is a large globular cluster, containing almost ten million stars, in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus, which has been studied to understand its stellar kinematics, the motions of its stars under the action of the gravitational forces which act on them. A research team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has just published a study which shows that a group of black holes dominates the movements of its stellar kinematics. This result can be extended to certain other structures in the universe and goes against some previous claims about the role of low

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), is promoting the LPI (La Palma Interferometer) project whose aim is to make astronomical observations with an angular resolution a thousand times better than that of the Hubble and the James Webb telescopes. The LPI project has collaboration with various centres of research, and other institutions in Spain, Italy, the nordic countries and Mexic who are working together to build a scientific installation which will be a reference at international level. Interferometry

A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), collaborating with other international institutions, has managed to find new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. This was possible thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, which is a project of the space agencies of the United States (NASA), Europe (ESA) and Canada (CSA). Exploring the populations of galaxies, and discovering their physical properties in large scale structures helps astronomers to understand galaxy formation and how their assembly is determined by their environment. The “ Spiderweb” protocluster

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the " Multimodal Universe" - a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset that brings together hundreds of millions of astronomical observations in unprecedented detail and scale. This massive collection of space data aims to revolutionize how artificial intelligence can be applied to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos. " The Multimodal Universe makes accessing machine learning-ready astronomical datasets as easy as writing a single line of code," says Helen Qu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Flatiron

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias colabora con el programa África Canarias Challenge impulsado por el Gobierno de Canarias con el objetivo de profundizar en las oportunidades de colaboración científica, tecnológica e innovadora entre el archipiélago, Marruecos y todos los países de África. Así, esa semana el IAC recibió tanto en su sede central como en la de IACTEC a una delegación de la University Mohammed VI Polytechnic de Marruecos dentro de una serie de visitas a distintos organismos educativos de las islas donde destacan tanto la Universidad de La Laguna como la Universidad de Las

La directora de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la Agencia Espacial Española, Isabel Pérez Grandes, ha visitado esta semana el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) con el objeto de intercambiar experiencias y proyectos de presente y de futuro. Pérez Grandes impartió una charla a los miembros del IAC bajo el título ‘Ciencia desde el espacio en España: hoja de ruta de la AEE’ que fue presentada por el director del centro, Valentín Martínez Pillet. Además, hizo un recorrido por las distintas áreas del IAC donde pudo conocer tanto sus proyectos científicos como tecnológicos. En la