![Artist's impression of a black hole.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016Jun06_banner-388x220.jpg)
Black Holes might not be dead-ends after all
Physical bodies may successfully reach the other side of a black hole, suggests a study co-authored by Diego Rubiera-Garcia, of Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
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![Ana Amélia Patacho (12 anos)](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/12472642_864776500316974_8510428960906125969_n-388x220.jpg)
Results of CHEOPS competition announced
Three thousand drawing, from children all over Europe, will be going to space in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) mission CHEOPS, whose portuguese partners are Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and Deimos Engenharia.
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![Imagem artística de uma vista aérea do E-ELT, no topo do Cerro Armazones (Chile). Crédito: ESO/L. Calçada](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016Mar23_banner-388x220.jpg)
Portugal involved in the construction of instruments for the largest telescope in the world
HIRES and MOS will be two of the main instruments for the biggest telescope of the next generation, ESO’s E-ELT, and have a strong involvement of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Ignite Astro tour
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço will tour the country and bring the Universe to places with lesser access to science outreach.
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![Conheça as pessoas que fazem o IA](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/imagem-final_865-388x220.jpg)
Know the people at IA
Upon the first anniversary of IA, we introduced some of our researchers. Learn more about each of them.
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![Esta impressão artística mostra o exoplaneta do tipo Júpiter quente 51 Pegasi b, que orbita uma estrela a cerca de 50 anos-luz de distância, na constelação do Pégaso.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2015Dez2_banner-388x220.jpg)
Half of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates are false positives
A 5-year study, led by Alexandre Santerne from the ExoEarths team at IA, found that most of these false positives were eclipsing binaries.
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![Imagem artística, com o planeta GJ 1132b no canto inferior esquerdo, e a estrela anã vermelha GJ 1132 ao centro.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2015nov11_banner-388x220.jpg)
Rocky exoplanet with atmosphere detected in the neighborhood of the Solar System
Nuno Cardoso Santos, from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), participated in the discovery of the “exoVenus” GJ 1132b, announced today in Nature.
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![Lusitânia, Caravela, Adamastor, Esperança e Saudade são os nomes propostos para o sistema mu Arae.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2015Out07_banner-388x220.jpg)
International competition can give portuguese names to exoplanets
Lusitânia, Caravela, Adamastor, Esperança and Saudade are the names proposed by Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva, with support from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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