BLACK HOLE MEAL SETS RECORD FOR LENGTH AND SIZE
A trio of X-ray observatories has captured a remarkable event in their data: a decade-long binge by a black hole almost two billion light years away. This discovery was made […]
GAHEC
Galaxies, High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
NIKA observes the merging of clusters of galaxies
A team of researchers belonging to the the NIKAconsortium (1) led by Rémi Adam (Laboratoire Lagrange – OCA, UCA, LPSC Grenoble, CNES), Iacopo Bartalucci and Gabriel Pratt (CEA Saclay), obtained for […]
Green light for the SVOM mission
The CNES Administration Board recently approved the French Space Agency’s commitment to the Sino-French scientific mission SVOM (Space-based Multiband Astronomical Variable Objects Monitor). The SVOM satellite will be launched in […]
A recent study reinforces the validity of the standard model in cosmology
A recent study led by four IRAP researchers and published within the Physical Review has shown that the standard model perfectly accounts – and far better than any other model […]
Detection of Giant Glowing Halos around Distant Quasars
An international team of astronomers has discovered glowing gas clouds surrounding distant quasars. This new survey by the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope indicates that halos around quasars […]
New Fermi observations: discovery of a new gamma binary
Fermi space telescope observations have allowed an international team led by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and including French researchers of the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de […]
EMIR has just been installed on the GTC
The EMIR team of IRAP is pleased to announce the arrival of the EMIR instrument on the 10m GTC telescope of the Canary. This event marks the end of an adventure […]
MOSAIC, the Multi-Object Spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
The European Southern Observatory has signed a phase A study contract with the MOSAIC consortium. The multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the E-ELT, being the biggest telescope […]
Astronomy: NIKA2, a new instrument for the detection of millimetric waves
To detect a cold body, it is necessary that detection instruments are even colder, to avoid the thermal “noise” associated with the instrument. Based on the KID technology (Kinetic Inductance […]