An International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains the first clear observational evidence that the mass of the supermassive central black hole in a massive galaxy affects the formation of new stars during its lifetime. This had been a widely accepted hypothesis, and is a key to theoretical simulations of massive galaxies, but it lacked observational confirmation. The results of this research were published yesterday in Nature magazine.

An International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains the first clear observational evidence that the mass of the supermassive central black hole in a massive galaxy affects the formation of new stars during its lifetime.

This high resolution 2D spectrograph, which recently had its "first light", is a project in which the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, and the Institute de Astrofísica de Canarias are collaborating.

A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova, along with another, in the Andromeda Galaxy during their academic practices in the Observatorios de Canarias. Observatorio del Teide / Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos.

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), el Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos (MCC), de Museos de Tenerife, han editado el calendario astronómico 2018 en formato póster ilustrado con la imagen de la Nebulosa del Águila (M16) obtenida con el instrumento OSIRIS en el GTC, en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma). Crédito: Equipo GTC/Daniel López/IAC. Diseño: Ramón Castro (SMM, IAC), Oswaldo González (MCC) y Alfred Rosenberg (UC3, IAC). Se podrán recoger ejemplares gratuitos de este calendario en los próximos días y hasta agotar

Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have identified, using the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) a star which is a key to the formation of the first chemical elements in the Galaxy. The results of this research are published today in the scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.