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Black hole with off-the-chart growth discovered in the early Universe
Published 15 September, 2025 in Outreach

Observed by a team, that includes several researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), this black hole—containing a billion solar masses—has a growth rate 2.4 times... read more ❯
Euclid Space Telescope reveals multiple discoveries
Published 19 March, 2025 in Outreach

Based on 34 articles published today, the Euclid Consortium, which includes several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, revealed a large number of new scientific results. Learn more (in... read more ❯
Portuguese researcher participates in the planing of a NASA telescope
Published 16 December, 2024 in Outreach

Telescópio Nancy Grace Roman, da NASA.

The Roman space telescope will have a contribution from the European Space Agency (ESA), which selected for one of the committees of this north-American consortium a researcher of the Institute... read more ❯
The largest ever image of the Universe began to be photographed today
Published 14 February, 2024 in Outreach

Conceção artística do telescópio espacial Euclid, e em fundo uma das primeiras imagens obtidas com este telescópio

Following the plan of observations led by researchers of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), the Euclid space telescope, 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, started today the assembling... read more ❯
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