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Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute demonstrates that…

Eugene Polzik receives Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute has received the 2014 Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award for Science and Technology.

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious pheno- menon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the…

Johannes Borregaard

Quantum repeaters and atomic ensembles Academic advisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. She will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years.

Jesper Mirsa Skottfelt

Improving Lucky Imaging Photometry Using the Two-Colour EMCCD Instrument at the Danish 1.54m telescope Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Charlotte Ditlevsen

Title: Electrical Conductivity Measurements (ECM) of Greenland ice cores Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Christoph Kort

Ida Margrethe Ringgaard

The impact of near-inertial waves on the Arctic halocline Supervisor: Markus Jochum

New Danish telescope for researching stars and Earth-like exoplanets

The first telescope in the Danish led telescope network will be officially opened on 25 October, 2014 on Tenerife. This will launch a worldwide stellar research project that will bring us even closer to the stars and…

Comet headed for Mars

On Sunday evening, 19 October 2014 at 20:30, a comet will come closer to colliding with Mars than we have ever seen. When the comet, Siding Spring, was discovered in January 2013 it initially appeared that it might be o…

Charles Marcus receives American research prize

Charles Marcus, who is a professor and head of the Center for Quantum Devices at NBI has been awarded the prize for ’Research Excellence in Nanotechnology’ by the nanoscience centre, NBIC at the University of…

Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario

The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising – but how much? Now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and their colleagues have calculated the risk for a worst-case scenario.…

Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania Xella from the Discovery Center have both received grants of approximately 6-6½ million kroner from YDUN under the…

Martin Sparre

Galaxy formation: observations and simulations of galaxies Supervisor: Prof. Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Xue Li

Exploring Cosmology with Supernovae - A study of supernovae and their applications Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime example of international collaboration, bringing together scientists of almost 100 nationalities.

Antje Fitzner

Modeling the tidewater glacier Kangiata Nunaata Sermia and the freshwater flux into Godthaabsfjorden Academic advisor: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Timmi Grosen Jørgensen

Investigation of the Magnetically Active Detached Eclipsing Binary System V80 using New Photometric Observations from The Kepler Space Telescope Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Mikkel Stockmann

Counting Holes in the Universe Academic Supervisors: Signe Riemer-Sørensen, University of Oslo (UiO) Tamara M. Davis, University of Queensland (UQ) Steen H. Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Dark Cosmology Centre

Peter Ditlevsen receives EU grant to research abrupt climate change

The EU has allocated four million Euros (29.7 million kroner) to an international network of researchers who will try to understand critical changes in complex dynamic systems in nature, in technology and in society

Turid Lakså

Inertial resonance in the ocean mixed layer Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Sarah Massalkhi

Circumstellar Dust Shells around Evolved Massive Stars Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Past temperature in Greenland adjusted

During a period of several thousand years up until the last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, the climate pattern in Greenland did not fit and this was a mystery to researchers. Now researchers from the Niel…