Highlights
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest European radio…
Super-massive black holes (SMBHs), that is black holes with at least one million times the mass of the Sun, are…
A group of astronomers, including Prof. Iossif Papadakis of the Institute of Astrophysics and the Department of Physics of the University of Crete have recently…
Polarized light emitted by Galactic interstellar dust acts as a veil obscuring our view of microwave emission from the early Universe - the cosmic microwave background (CMB), often called the Big Bang "ashes". An…
A large-scale magnetic field (ranging from a fraction of a μG to hundreds of mG) permeates the…
The models that seek to explain the reflection spectrum in black hole binaries usually invoke a point-like primary source of hard…
2020 Highlights
Large scale structures, such as groups of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters, have long been the workhorses of observational cosmology. Now a new way to observe them promises to provide new insights to one of…
Luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs/ULIRGs) have been an active area of galaxy research since their discovery more than three decades ago. With its vast increase in sensitivity in the infrared, Spitzer…
Strong indications for the existence of a second planet in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, have been recently unveiled by an international team of scientists.
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2019 Highlights
Research conducted by an international team of astronomers, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed an enormous nebula around an extreme form of a merging galaxy.
The galaxy named Makani (Hawaiian for 'wind') is pushing a…
As a star evolves, depleting the hydrogen in its nucleus and becoming a supergiant, its size may increase by more than 500 times. If the star is in a binary system it enters the so-called common envelope phase, in which the evolved star engulfs…
Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) emit a compact, optically thick, mildly relativistic radio jet when they are in hard and hard-intermediate states. In these states, BHBs exhibit a correlation between the time…
2018 Highlights
Drs Pablo Reig and Dmitry Blinov of the Institute of Astrophysics have found the first evidence of precessing warped…
Dr. Aris Tritsis and Prof. Konstantinos Tassis of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete have reported the first-ever discovery of normal modes in a molecular cloud, called Musca. This discovery has allowed the two researchers to…
2017 Highlights
An international team of astronomers, including Prof. Vasiliki Pavlidou of the Institute of Astrophysics and the Department of Physics of the University of Crete…