News about Astrophysics

Johan Samsing receives the prestigious Einstein Fellowship

Johan Samsing, who is just about to complete his PhD at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called ‘Einstein…

Stream of stars in Andromeda satellite galaxy shows cosmic collision

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from NBI, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Galaxy’s outer satellite galaxies, called Andromeda II.

Mars research receives FNU grant

Morten Bo Madsen, who leads the Mars Group in Astrophysics and Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of just over 3.8 million kroner from FNU, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural…

First images of star cluster from the Gaia Satellite

The Gaia Satellite has already sent its first images down to Earth approximately 40 days after its launch on the 19th of December. They show a dense collection of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud at a distance of…

Early galaxies grew massive through collisions

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang

Teddy Fjeldgaard Frederiksen

NURSERIES OF SUPERNOVAE A STUDY OF YOUNG HIGH REDSHIFT TYPE IA SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXIES Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Martina Falco

DYNAMICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS AND THEIR OUTSKIRTS: beyond the virialization regime Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Stefan Geier

PIECES TO THE PUZZLE OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES FALLING INTO PLACE Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Elena Sacchi

Constraining mass and shape of galaxy clusters through large scale structures Supervisors: Lauro Moscardini and Steen H. Hansen

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the first time ever, researchers from DARK, among others, have observed an unusually powerful gamma-ray

Daves Tomasz Benedykt Hoszowski

Inflated Exoplanets Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Troels Paarup

Quasar K-correction in the UV-optical spectral region and broad emission line shape parameter dependence on Eddington ratio

Quasar observed in 6 separate light reflections

Using a special method where you observe light that has been bent by gravity on its way through the universe, a group of physics students from NBI have observed a quasar whose light has been deflected and reflected in

New knowledge about early galaxies

Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from NBI have studied an early galaxy in unprecedented detail and determined a number of

Simone Juul Jakobsen

Supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae in the Norma region Main advisor: Darach Watson Co-advisors: John Tomsick and Allan Hornstrup

Researchers close to finding habitable planets

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Aarhus University are part of a team that has discovered a planetary system with five small planets of which two are super-Earth sized and lie in the habitable zone.

Denmark contributing to the world's largest telescope for searching for life in the unive

The Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and DTU space are investing at total of 37 million kroner in a new telescope, which will be called the European Extremely Large Telescope,…

Most distant Type Ia supernova observed

In the quest to find the most distant supernova, researchers have broken the record and observed a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago. This was in the early youth of the universe when it was evolvin…

Planck satellite explores the infancy of the universe

Using new data from the Planck satellite, researchers can now show that the universe is not expanding as fast as previously thought and the universe is 80 million years older than we thought.

Gisela Baumann

Particle Dynamics in Solar Coronal Magnetic Reconnection Regions Supervisor: Prof. Åke Nordlund

Kosmisk forskning på top 10 over betydningsfulde gennembrud

Astronomer fra NBI har udviklet en banebrydende metode til at måle langdistance-afstande i universet ved hjælp af lyset fra kvasarer. Physics World har udvalgt denne forskning som et af de 10 vigtigste gennembrud

Christmas burst puzzles

On 25 December 2010, NASA’s Swift satellite detected an unusually bright and long-lived gamma-ray burst. Astrophysicists from DARK and their colleagues explain the unusual phenomenon in a new paper published in…

Diana Juncher

SEARCHING FOR ATTRACTORS IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Henrik Brink

Halo modelling of galaxy clustering Academic advisor: Berian James Co-advisor: Steen H. Hansen