Amina Helmi, the “archeologist of the Milky Way,” explains how our own galaxy could unlock the mystery of dark matter
Unbeknownst to most of us, we live immersed in a huge Rosetta stone that holds the keys to unraveling some of the Universe’s greatest enigmas. The Milky Way, a standard galaxy that shares traits with the vast majority of its fellows, can help explain two of the most urgent questions in modern astrophysics: how these giant cosmic structures came to be formed and the role played in the Universe by the mysterious dark matter.
11 December, 2017
On Monday, December 11, Amina Helmi, Professor of Dynamics, Structure and Formation of the Milky Way at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and one of the world’s leading experts in the study of how the Milky Way was formed, will visit the BBVA Foundation’s Madrid headquarters to explain what we are discovering about our cosmic backyard thanks to the ambitious Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), as part of the sixth edition of the astrophysics lecture series Science of the Cosmos. Science in the Cosmos.