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Looking at the shadow–The first picture of a black hole

Written on Apr, 18, 2019 by

 By Mireia Montes Quiles Astronomers have captured the first image ever of a black hole. As part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, the team simultaneously took observations using telescopes around the globe to take one of the most detailed images ever…

Shedding New Light on Dark Matter

Written on Mar, 25, 2019 by

By Dr Mireia Montes Using the Hubble Space telescope’s past observations, astronomer Dr Mireia Montes’ group demonstrated that intracluster light—the diffuse glow between galaxies in a cluster—traces the path of dark matter, illuminating its distribution more accurately than existing methods. Galaxies are collections…