TESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
Earlier this year, a team of astrophysicists has revealed new insights on an ancient collision that our galaxy the Milky Way underwent with another smaller...
Testing Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
Testing the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhood
Blazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
The changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814
The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...
The early sequence of events that shaped the Milky Way
Among the myriad discoveries presented in the second data release of the Gaia mission, there was an enigmatic color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Milky Way halo...
The extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf star
We present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
The helium enrichment in massive stars during the main sequence could be the result of mass accretion
There is increasing evidence that single-star evolutionary models are unable to reproduce all of the observational properties of massive stars. Binary...
The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys
The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. New facilities will soon provide imaging...