The pre-doctoral researcher of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona Dani Marín, accompanied the program La Caravana of Ràdio Estel last Wednesday, December 7 to talk about the discovery of the black hole that is closest to Earth, 1,600 light years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus or Serpentarius.

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In an article published in BBC’s journal Sky at Night researchers, among which we find  ICCUB’s Postdoc researcher Tomás Andrade, study the possible existence of “n

ICCUB’s researcher Roberto Emparan has participated in one of the episodes of the new series within the outreach project

The study investigates an unusual brightening of a star. The ICCUB –IEEC astronomer Josep Manel Carrasco is one of the authors of the study. 

On Wednesday, September 18th at 18:30 at the Institute for Catalan Studies, IEC, will be presented the exhibition "Dones i física", prepared by the Catalan Physics Society, SCF, a subsidiary of the Institute for Catalan Studies in collaboration with the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, ICCUB, and the Faculty of Physic

Cent anys de l’eclipsi que va donar la raó a Einstein El 29 de maig de 1919 dues expedicions organitzades per la Reial Societat Astronòmica de Londres van fotografiar un eclipsi total de sol amb la intenció de comprovar la validesa de la teoria general de la relativitat.

Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, who led the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe in the nineties and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UB in a ceremony presided by the rector, Joan Elias, together with his patrons, professors Ramon Canal, from the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, and Pilar Ruiz Lapuente, member of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB, UB-IEEC), and the dean of the Faculty of PHyi

On Wednesday, April 10, the image of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy made by the scientific team of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was made public.

Cosmology, gravitation, particle physics, atomic physics and nuclear physics are the topics to be treated in a disseminating way in the new portal of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB): ServiPartícules.