News about Astrophysics

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…

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…

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.

Andrius Popovas

Planet formation. The roles of pebble accretion, radiative and convective energy transport Supervisor: Prof. Åke Nordlund

Carlos Gómez Guijarro

Connecting the Extremes High-redshift Starbursts as Progenitors of Massive Galaxies Supervisor: Prof. Sune Toft

Elizabeth Artur de la Villarmois

The physics and chemistry of envelopes and disks around young protostars Supervisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

Gopakumar Mohandas

On the dynamics of dust, magnetohydrodynamics of disks, and atmospheric radiation of planets Supervisor: Dr. Martin E. Pessah

Jens Juel Jensen

Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galaxies On measuring their mass and influence on circumnuclear PAH features Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Jonatan Selsing

Illuminating the Dark with cosmic explosions and their afterglows Supervisor: Lise Bech Christensen

Nils Henrik Pehlivan Rhodin

Deep emission studies of high redshift absorption selected galaxies Probing the Galaxy Population With Beacons From Afar Principal Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Lise Bech Christensen

Per Andersen

Candles that light up the Dark Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Steffen Kjær Jacobsen

3D Radiative Transfer Modeling of Embedded Protostellar Regions Supervisor: Jes Kristian Jørgensen