The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through the UNDARK Project, Unravelling the Dark Universe from the Canary Islands Observatories , funded by the European Union, together with the Cabildo de Tenerife, the Government of the Canary Islands, the STEAM area of the Cabildo de Tenerife and Fundación CajaCanarias, promotes this initiative committed to scientific and cultural outreach, bringing science closer to society through education, literature and critical thinking. In this context, the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain hosted on Monday, May 25, the

The international BEARD project, led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has used data from several telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and computer simulations to explain how galaxies similar to the Milky Way have managed to survive the most violent stages of the history of the Universe. The present model for the evolution of the universe predicts an epoch dominated by important mergers of galaxies some ten thousand million years ago. “It’s a case of violent interactions, in which it is foreseeable that weak structures