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    Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

    Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable…

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    A fully isolated dwarf galaxy unexpectedly affected by ram pressure

    Dwarf galaxies are known to be pristine probes of the early Universe, especially when they are isolated and not interacting with massive galaxies. Observations with the MeerKAT radio telescope of WLM, an archetype of such a…

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    Emeritus Professor Anthony Moffat receives the Carlyle S. Beals Award for 2022

    The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) is pleased to announce that Université de Montréal Emeritus Professor Anthony Moffat, member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), is the winner of the 2022 Beals Award. …

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    Cooperation Required for the Emergence of Life Found to Arise Easily

    Image credit: UPV Spectroscopy Group Microwaver Region. One of the main theories on the origin of life proposes the hypothesis according to which life evolved as cooperative networks of molecules. Explaining cooperation – and particularly, its…

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    Our CRAQ colleague, Eve Lee, receives the Annie Jump Cannon Award for 2022

    The American Astronomical Society’s 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy has been awarded to Eve Lee (McGill University) for her illuminating work on the formation of stars, debris disks, and planets. The Award’s selection committee pronounced that…

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    Our CRAQ colleagues, members of the “CHIME Fast Radio Burst” team, receive the 2022 Berkeley Prize

    The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, receive the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York…

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    A new professor joins the CRAQ

    The Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) welcomes a new professor of astrophysics. Katelin Schutz joined the McGill University Astrophysics Group as Assistant Professor in August 2021. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics…

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    Emilie Parent receives one of the SWAAC Graduate Student Award of Merit for 2021

    Emilie Parent, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Physics at McGill University and member of the McGill Space Institute, has received one of the 2021 Graduate Student Award of Merit from the Senior Women Academic Administrators…

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    Ziggy Pleunis receives a PhD Prize from IAU

    Ziggy Pleunis, who recently completed a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Victoria Kaspi (McGill), was awarded a PhD Prize from the “High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics” division of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)…

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    Nathalie Ouellette wins a Prix du recteur 2021

    Nathalie Ouellette, Coordinator of iREx and CRAQ member, is the winner of one of the “Prix du Recteur” of the Université de Montréal awards for 2021, in the category Initiative. This award recognises the imagination, dynamism…

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    A Solar Eclipse on the morning of June 10th 2021

    The Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) and the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM), invite you to admire the solar eclipse taking place at sunrise on the morning…

About us

The Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) brings together all the astrophysicists in Quebec. Nearly 150 people, including some fifty researchers and their students from Université de Montréal, McGill University, Université Laval, Bishop’s University,…

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Our mission

The mission of the Center for research in astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) is to conduct state-of-the-art scientific research in the field of astronomy and astrophysics in Quebec and to promote Quebec astronomy on the world stage….

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Activities

CRAQ researchers and their students organize and participate in a multitude of transfer and outreach activities. Some of these activities are reserved to the scientific community such as international conferences, specialized seminars, summer school and various annual…

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