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New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity
Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early universe into the sprawling strands...
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NewsNew Earths discovered around a very small starAn international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
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NewsNew edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"With the aim of motivating interest in scientific and technological (STEM) careers among the younger girls, and to publicise the work of the women...
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NewsNew edition of “Talk to them: Women in Astronomy”Women astronomers and engineers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from the Canary Observatories, and from other collaborating institutions...
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NewsNew evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thoughtA research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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NewsNew evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thoughtA research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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NewsNew findings in spiral galaxies challenge the dark matter hypothesisA study published in the Astrophysical Journal supports models which question the need for the existence of this form of matter in galaxies
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NewsNew light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scalesScientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...
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NewsNew measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General RelativityAn international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift...