The discovery of dark matter (DM) followed cosmic gravitational observation (Zwicky, 1933), which remains inconsistent within known physics. Solar system...
Plato's view on supermassive black hole binaries: Exploring the faintest limit of ESA's Plato space mission
The search for supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) seemingly saw the dawn of exploration over the past twenty years with several hundred sub-pc candidates...
Quantum Simulators for the Cosmos: From Confining Strings to the Early Universe
The rapid progress of quantum technologies—highlighted by recent Nobel Prizes recognizing advances in controlling quantum matter—is reshaping how we investigate...
Relativistic jets from stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars: the MeerKAT revolution
Relativistic jets are amongst the most important and powerful phenomena in astrophysics, and yet also amongst the least understood. Most well known in the...
Retrieval of Dust Optical Properties in the UV-vis-NIR
Constraining dust optical properties is essential for interpreting remote sensing observations of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, as well as for...
Science in the Spanish community with Adaptive Optics in GTC: the power of FRIDA
The implementation of Adaptive Optics at the GTC, combined with the science instrument FRIDA -- an imager and integral field spectrograph operating in the near...
Scrutinising the bedrock of contemporary cosmology
The remarkable success of recent cosmology in pinpointing a consistent concordance model relies on several foundational assumptions, including homogeneity...
Smooth and clumpy dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are the most dark matter (DM)–dominated galaxies in the Universe, and as such, they provide excellent targets for testing a...
The ESO Extremely Large Telescope project is in the final stages of AIV. The bulk of the telescope and dome are erected on site and almost half the primary...