A Spanish scientist specializing in giant black holes will lead it over the next five years. The European Southern Observatory, which has three of the world's largest astronomical observatories, La Silva, Paranal and Llano de Chachnantor, which are located in the Chilean Atacama Desert, employs about 700 people, and its members are 15 countries in Europe and Brazil. Thanks to the data obtained at these observatories, more than a thousand scientific articles are published every year, which help to advance in the further study of outer space.

The main task of Barkons will be the completion of the creation of the world's largest infrared optical telescope, the commissioning of which is scheduled for 2024. In addition, phenomena such as gravitational waves, supernova explosions and black holes will be studied in more detail.

Thus, at present, the Paranal Observatory is the only observatory in the world that investigates a giant black hole located in the center of our galaxy.

Finally, using the ALMA radio telescope, it is planned to continue searching for exoplanets with an atmosphere that could theoretically be suitable for life. While with a high degree of reliability it is still impossible to detect traces of the biological activity of planets outside the solar system, however, work in this direction is already underway.

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