News about Astrophysics

Caroline Heneka

Cosmological Structure Formation: From Dawn till Dusk From Reionization to galaxy clusters Supervisors: Dr. David Rapetti & Prof. Steen H. Hansen

Carlsberg supports Danish Mars research

Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of 2.5 million kroner from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project: A Field Trip 250 million km from home – Salary for Essentia…

Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early stages in the formation of a new solar system. For the first time they have seen how a powerful whirlwind shoot out from...

Mystery of ultra-diffuse faint galaxies solved

Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The galaxies are as faint as dwarf galaxies, but are distributed over an area just as large as the Milky Way.

Sadik Acili

A galaxy illuminated by a GRB at z=2.33 Supervisor: Johan P. U. Fynbo

Amanda Bredahl Larssen

Dust reddening of quasars: A study of redshift and luminosity dependence of extinction, and of dust as main explanation of quasar UV SED diversity Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Maryam Arabsalmani

Gas Kinematics in GRB Host Galaxies Supervisors: Palle Møller (ESO) and Johan P. U. Fynbo (NBI)

Andreas Skielboe

Colossal creations of gravity From clusters of galaxies to active galactic nuclei Supervisors: Kristian Pedersen and Darach Watson

Isabella Chi Gieseler Cortzen

Examining the existence of two distinct modes of star formation A study of the gas reservoir and dust emission in star-forming galaxies across cosmic time Supervisor: Georgios Magdis

First step in the Deep Space mission

Deep Space is a project that will use a new specially designed telescope to look far into space in order to observe radiation from the early universe. The equipment will be placed at Summit in the middle of the...

Matteo Cataneo

Growth of Structure in Theories of Cosmic Acceleration Supervisors: Dr. David A. Rapetti Co-supervisor: Prof. Jens Hjorth

Kasper Elm Heintz

Exploring New Methods of Selecting Quasars Supervisor:Johan P. U. Fynbo

Star and planetary scientists get millions of hours on EU supercomputers

The universe is full of mysteries. Mysteries that cannot be solved by observation alone, but researchers can examine them using modelling. However, this requires enormous processing power and is very expensive.

Site on Mars named after Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen

The Danish Mars researcher Jens Martin Knudsen has had an area on Mars named after him. The site has been named Knudsen Ridge and has a very beautiful location by Endeavour Crater near the equator.

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz receives Niels Bohr Professorship

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, will be a Niels Bohr Professor at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz receives Niels Bohr Professorship for exploring the universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, will be a Niels Bohr Professor at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Gustav Collin Rasmussen

Structural and dynamical properties of dark matter halos Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen and Martin Sparre

Star with different internal driving force than the Sun

Astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a distant star in the constellation Andromeda with a different positioning of sunspots and this indicates a magnetic field that is driven by completely…

John E. Niclasen

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Søren Frimann

Evolution of Deeply Embedded Protostars Simulations meet Observations Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Anders Paaske Drachmann

DUST PRODUCTION IN LATE-TYPE HIGH-MASS STARS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE ISM Supervisor: ANJA C. ANDERSEN

MIKKEL JUHL HOBERT

THE ROLE OF CORE COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE IN THE CONTEXT OF DUST PRODUCTION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE Supervisor: DARACH WATSON

Dark Cosmology Centre in hunt for gravitational wave sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, have been directly detected for the first time and astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute’s Dark…

The solar system’s ninth planet in sight

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet in our own solar system that we have never seen. It has long been known that the small dwarf planet Sedna moved in a…