News about Astrophysics

Astronomical discovery: How novae light up the sky

An international team, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, has for the first time demonstrated that most of their brightness comes from shockwaves created in a unique and a previously unknown…

Albert Sneppen

Systematic Variations of the Stellar Initial Mass Function Supervisor: Charles L. STEINHARDT

Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

Following the latest developments of the COVID 19 pandemic, the planned Workshop on Perspectives and Applications of Deep Learning for Accelerated Scientific Discovery in Physics was turned into an online event.

Happy birthday to Hubble Space Telescope

The Cosmic DAWN Center at the Niels Bohr Institute is pleased to wish the Hubble Space Telescope a happy birthday celebrating 30 years in orbit!

Researchers have found the queen of supernovas: Shines brighter than any previously found

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, have discovered the queen of all supernovas. A stellar explosion twice as bright as any run-of-the-mill supernova. An unprecedented observation, according to…

Magdalena Maria Otap

Title: Creating and Testing Astronomy Teaching Packages for an Online Ressource Supervisors: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, Marianne Achiam

Sarah Pearson receives the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

Former Niels Bohr Institute student, Sarah Pearson, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called Hubble Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually by NASA…

Isabella Chi Gieseler Cortzen

A view into the interstellar medium of galaxies across cosmic time Supervisors: Associate Professor Georgios Magdis and Professor Sune Toft

The core of massive dying galaxies already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang…

Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefs, says new study from the Niels Bohr Institute

Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This is the…

Suk Joo Ko

Spectroscopy of red Quasars Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Extremely energetic particles coupled with the violent death of a star for the first time

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU Space in Lyngby have determined the emission of extremely energetic light particles during the death of a very heavy star for the first time.

The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

For the first time, an element heavier than iron has been clearly detected in the collision of two neutron stars, resolving one of the fundamental questions about the history of the universe.

Mikkel Stockmann

Genesis of Giants - Massive Galaxy Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years Supervisor: Prof. Sune Toft

Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies, linking dark matter to galaxy formation

An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion light years away using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes in Hawaii.

Leonardo Krapp

Multispecies Dynamics in Weakly Ionized Dusty Protoplanetary Disks Supervisor: Oliver Lothar Gressel

Cecilie Sand Nørholm

The Effect of Protoclusters on the Properties of Lyman-Alpha Emitters Supervisors: Francesco Valentino, Georgios Magdis, and Sune Toft

NSF Awards Funding for the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is about to get a significant upgrade. The World's largest neutrino telescope, located at the South Pole, is run by an international team of more than 300 scientists, including a group a…

Greenland Telescope to image black holes by moving onto the Greenland ice sheet

Scientists from DARK at the Niels Bohr Institute will soon be able to participate in the “Event Horizon Telescope” (EHT) with the Greenland Telescope (GLT). The GLT will become part of a global network of radio…

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the 2019 MERAC Prize from the European Astronomical Society for the Best Early Career Researcher.

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves Villum Young Investigator grants.

Catching a glimpse of the gamma-ray burst engine

A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be “one of the closets GRBs ever observed”. The discovery is featured in Nature – and it has yielded valuable information about the formation of the most…

Hubble searches for the origin of the first galaxies

How did the first galaxies come to be? The Buffalo project, a new Hubble Frontier Fields Program to study the first galaxies with the The Hubble Space Telescope has started to conduct a large survey.

New observations link gigantic star collisions to homeless short duration gamma ray bursts

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have been involved in detecting a beam of light that provides a link between neutron star mergers and short duration gamma ray bursts. The result is no…