News about Physics

Jiaming Yao

The Optical and Infrared Properties of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies in ALCS Supervisors: Georgios Magdis and Francesco Maria Valentino

Congratulations to Dion Häfner

Congratulations to Dion Häfner at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11 May 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Dion Häfner

Title: An Ocean of Data - Inferring the Causes of Real-World Rogue Waves Supervisor: Professor Markus Jochum, Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen

Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education welcome Richard Staley

Professor Staley is pursuing projects on climate change and the history of AI as well as the making of modern physics

Scientists discovers new properties of magnetism that could change our computers

Our electronics can no longer shrink and are on the verge of overheating. But in a new discovery from the University of Copenhagen, researchers have uncovered a fundamental property of magnetism, which may become…

Scientific advance leads to a new tool in the fight against hackers

A new form of security identification could soon see the light of day and help us protect our data from hackers and cybercriminals. Quantum mathematicians at the University of Copenhagen have solved a mathematical riddl…

New and surprising duality found in theoretical particle physics

A new and surprising duality has been discovered in theoretical particle physics. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes that can occur in the proton collisions made in the Large Hadron Collider at…

Inaugural lecture by Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Congratulations to Christine Schøtt Hvidberg at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who held her inaugural lecture 20 April at HCØ, AUD 4 from 15:00-17:00

Angeliki Christakopoulou

Biological exploration of Mars: Survival and metabolic activity testing of extremophiles exposed to simulated Martian soil and atmosphere, using a Mars environment simulation chamber Supervisors: Uffe Gråae…

Breaking news from the dawn of the universe

Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The international research team is led by astronomers from the University of…

Letizia Catalini

Ph.D. thesis: Nonlinear Phenomena in Dissipation Diluted Nanomechanical Resonators Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and DTU discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe. This is the…

Octopus-like tentacles help cancer cells invade the body

With the help of the worlds best tweezers a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has shed new light on a fundamental mechanism in all living cells that helps them explore their surroundings and even…

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions

Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the University of…

Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air

Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time: atmospheric carbon acts as fertilizer, increasing biological production. The mechanism removes carbon from the air and thereby dampens the…

Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now…

David John Willumsen

Title: Effect of Water in Cool Atmospheres Supervisors: Uffe Gråae Jørgensen

Charlotte Cramer Kristensen

Title: Investigation of the existence and expected mass of a companion black hole for Sagittarius A* Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Harald Sigurd Okkels

Mastering MOXIE - Perovskite Anode Supported Cells and Gas flow Analysis for the Development of a Martian Solid Oxide Electrolysis Based Propellant Plant Supervisors: Morten Bo Madsen (NBI) and Anke Hagen (DTU) …

Sebastian Søderlund Wierød

Title: Characterization of The FoCal-H Prototype Calorimeter Supervisor: Ian Bearden

Stephanie Zielke Fleron

Title: NASAs Mars 2020 Mission to Jezero Crater from landing to Sol 130 - A Mastcam-Z geology student collaborators experiences and work on the M2020 Mission Supervisor: Kjartan Münster Kinch

New analysis leads to a fundamentally different view of supermassive black holes

In the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these are actively feeding on the gas and dust around them, expelling excess energy as powerful jets that are seen as quasars across the entire…

Jonas Højsted Dalgaard

Title: Violating Bell's inequality with continuous variables & qubit-cavity interaction Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen