News about Astrophysics

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…

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…

Jesper Mirsa Skottfelt

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

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…

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

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

Sarah Massalkhi

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

Johan Samsing

DYNAMICS OF STARS, DARK MATTER AND THE UNIVERSE Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Ece Kilerci Eser

ACTIVE GALAXIES: A Study of Local Seyferts and Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

William Gryffydd Beynon Parry

Analysing the Mass Structure of Small Gravitational Lens Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters Supervisors: Claudio Grillo (DARK Fellow) and Lise Christensen (Assoc. Prof.)

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research published in Nature shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions, they can also survive the subsequent shockwaves they are exposed to. Led by researchers from Aarhus and DARK

Cosmic grains of dust formed in supernova explosion

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions, they can also survive the subsequent…

Grants from FNU to Astrophysics and Biophysics

Two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, Marianne Vestergaard at the Dark Cosmology Centre and Lene Oddershede in Optical Tweezers have both received grants of approx. 6-6½ million kroner from FNU

Rikke Lund Saust

Investigating the Nature of Damped Lyman-α Absorbing Galaxies Supervisor: Lise Christensen

Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen

Extinction curves and the total-to-selective extinction ratio for dust formed in the type IIn SN 2005ip Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Jacob Svensmark

Effect of asphericity in caustic mass estimates of galaxy clusters Supervisor: : Assoc Prof Steen H. Hansen

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, new adjunct professor of high energy astrophysics

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, USA, and he is also head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Santa Cruz Institute. He is now employed as adjunct professor at…

New insights into gamma-ray Burst afterglows

Gamma-ray bursts are powerful bursts of gamma radiation in connection with the explosive death of massive stars. The bursts themselves are short lived – typically less than a few minutes, but is followed by an afterglow…

Cosmic collision creates mini-planet with rings

Until now, rings of material in a disc have only been observed around giant planets like Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and especially Saturn, which is known for its spectacular rings. Now astronomers from NBI, have observed…