Dr. Jesús Alberto Toalá Sanz from the Institute for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM Campus Morelia, Mexico, will receive the Marcos Moshinsky Professorship that is annually awarded by UNAM’s Physics Institute to young researchers in the areas of Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology, to develop a research project in their interest areas.

Scientists from UNAM are investigating black holes, unique formations at the center of galaxies like ours, from theoretical and the observational points of view.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized this morning three researchers with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing the irrefutable existence of the supermassive black hole located in the center of our galaxy, whose mass was measured by the Mexican astronomer Luis Felipe Rodríguez since 1978.

Spiral galaxies are one thing — but some spiral patterns in the sky are created much closer to home, arising from stars instead! A recent study explores a stellar pinwheel spotted around an unexpected source.

El pasado miércoles 29 de julio, la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (AMC) inició su LXI Año Académico en una ceremonia virtual, en la que tomó posesión como nueva presidenta de esta institución la astrónoma Susana Lizano Soberón, para el periodo julio 2020-julio 2023, tras concluir la gestión del doctor José Luis Morán López.