News about Astrophysics

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…

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

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe

The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.

Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe

From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd…

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team measuring neutrino interaction at energy levels 1000 times higher than what can be attained in man-made particle…

Anja C. Andersen has been awarded the Danish Authors' Society Literary Prize 2017

The prize has previously been awarded, among others, to Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Tor Nørretranders, Jørn Lund, Peter Øvig Knudsen, Jens Andersen, Ulrik Langen and Søren Ryge. This year, the prize is shared between Anja C.…

New discovery: Supernova explodes several times

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years. These observations are challenging existing theories on cosmic catastrophes.