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IFAE coordinates the FET-Open project AVaQus to develop new quantum computing technologies
April 1, 2020
IFAE leads the AVaQus project, which aims to radically upgrade current quantum annealing technology by engineering novel superconducting quantum circuits.
Breaking the limits: Discovery of the highest-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst
November 19, 2019
The first GRB detected by the MAGIC telescopes, known as GRB 190114C, reveals for the first time the highest energy photons measured from these objects.
DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos
October 28, 2019
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a new instrument designed to accurately map the Universe, begins its final testing stage.
Virgo and LIGO join forces for a new year-long signal hunt
March 26, 2019
The Virgo and LIGO detectors are ready to start the new Observing run called O3, lasting a whole year. The hunt for gravitational waves is set to start on April 1st when the Virgo detector and the LIGO twin detectors will start to take data becoming together the most sensitive gravitational wave observatory to date
Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission
January 8, 2019
Scientists’ effort to map a portion of the sky in unprecedented detail is coming to an end, but their work to learn more about the expansion of the universe has just begun.
Final Agreements Signed for CTA's Southern Hemisphere Site in Chile
December 20, 2018
On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) signed the final agreements needed for CTA’s southern hemisphere array to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
LIGO and Virgo Announce Four New Gravitational-Wave Detections
December 3, 2018
The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one merger of neutron stars, which are the dense, spherical remains of stellar explosions. Six of the black hole merger events had been reported before, while four are newly announced.
EU Particle Physics & Astronomy commit to the Research Data Revolution making the European Open Science Cloud a reality
The European project ESCAPE, funded with 16 million euros, will provide open data from astrophysics and particle physics large facilities, such as the LHC or the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
IFAE joins the VIRGO collaboration
November 14, 2018
IFAE just became a new member institution inside the VIRGO collaboration. This opens a new long-term research line in IFAE related to GWs detection using terrestrial interferometry.
