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For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves — ripples in space-time — in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitational waves and light. The discovery was made using the U.S.-based Laser...

Ricardo Chavez , CONACyT Fellow at the KICC, has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize for the period 2013-2014 at the Mexican National Astronomy Meeting 2017. The prize is awarded to the best doctoral thesis written in Mexico (or by Mexican citizens anywhere in the world) on the fields of Astronomy, Astrophysics...

Thanks to the joint support by the Isaac Newton Trust and by the Kavli Foundation , the Kavli Institute for Cosmology is starting a new programme of Newton-Kavli Junior Fellowships in Cosmology and Astrophysics. Within this context the Institute is offering one junior research fellowship for three years starting in October...