News about Astrophysics

Swift satellite detects 1000th gamma-ray burst

The NASA satellite, Swift, has now detected its 1000th gamma-ray burst. Since the launch of the satellite in 2004, it has revolutionised research into gamma-ray bursts.

Jes Jørgensen receives The Academy of Sciences and Letters Silver Medal 2015

In 2015, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards a silver medal goes to Associate Professor Jes K. Jørgensen from the Niels Bohr Institute for his research into the processes surrounding the formation of…

Mikkel Lindholmer

A Catalogue of Zeldovich Pancakes Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Christoffer Bruun-Schmidt

Infall Velocity in Galaxy Clusters Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

KU students win gold in the United States for Mars moss project

Can we develop a moss that can survive and grow on Mars? A group of students from the Center for Synthetic Biology and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen decided to try.

Jens-Kristian Krogager

Galaxies in the Early Universe – characterized in absorption and emission Supervisors: Johan P. U. Fynbo and Cédric Ledoux

Jonatan Selsing

High energy space phenomena: A window to the dark universe Supervisor: Dr. Lise Christensen

Ia Kochiashvili

High redshift Lyman-α hunt Galaxies as precious forged jewels Supervisors: Prof. Johan P. U. Fynbo

Thejs Brinkmann

The structure of clusters in a Self-Interacting Dark Matter cosmology Supervisor: Jesús Zavala Franco Co-supervisor: Steen Harle Hansen

Per Andersen

Doing Cosmology with Bulk Flow Magnitudes: Observational Effects Supervisor: Prof. Jens Hjorth

Super-bright supernova with extreme burst of gamma radiation

Astronomers from NBI have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long lasting gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts are in rare cases observed in connection with supernovae, which are the

Super-bright supernova with extreme burst of gamma radiation

Astronomers from DARK have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long lasting gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts are in rare cases observed in connection with supernovae, which are the

Johannes Zabl

Emission line imaging and spectroscopy of distant galaxies Supervisors: Johan P. U. Fynbo and Cédric Ledoux

Mars might have liquid water

Researchers have long known that there was water in the form of ice on Mars. Now, new research from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is liquid water close to the surface of Mars.

Anna-Sofie Köhn Zahl

Investigating the FeII/MgII-ratio as a possible metallicity tracer in high redshift Quasars Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Karen Pardos Olsen

OBSERVING AND SIMULATING GALAXY EVOLUTION - from X-ray to millimeter wavelengths Supervisors: Sune Toft and Thomas Greve

Anja Andersen gives this year's Rosseland Lecture

April 8th 2015, Anja Andersen gave this year's Rosseland lecture about her research at DARK about cosmic dust in the interstellar medium. The Rosseland Lecture is held annually by the Institute of Theoretical…

Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water

Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the…

Planets in the habitable zone around most stars, calculate researchers

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in our galaxy, the Milky Way. By analysing these planetary systems, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have…

Astronomers observe four images of the same supernova using a cosmic lens

Astronomers have for the first time observed a supernova multiply-imaged due to gravitational lensing. The light from the supernova is seen in four different images due to a cosmic phenomenon that causes light to be…

Astronomers observe four images of the same supernova using a cosmic lens

Astronomers have for the first time observed a supernova multiply-imaged due to gravitational lensing. It is published in the scientific magazine Science in a special issue celebrating the centenary of Einstein’s Theory…

Astronomers find dust in the early universe

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from…

Astronomers find dust in the early universe

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from…

Astronomers find dust in the early universe

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from…