The Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM Morelia achieved a rate of 5.2 scientific articles per researcher between September 2024 and August 2025. This is one of the highest rates within the entire UNAM Scientific Research Subsystem.

On November 1st, Laurent Loinard was named Project Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) consortium, a large international collaboration that published the first image of a supermassive black hole in 2019. Loinard is a researcher at the Institute of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Morelia.

Just over 4,000 people enjoyed the night sky at the 2025 “Noche de las Estrellas” star party in Morelia, held on the Calzada Fray Antonio de San Miguel (San Diego) on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, November 29. A staff of 153 people made the entire event program possible, volunteering their time for the enjoyment of all attendees.

We are now used to seeing beautiful images of space circulating online, but we would know very little about what is going on behind those images without quantum physics.

Julieta Fierro Gossman, 1948 - 2025