News about Astrophysics

Vitor Cardoso Elected President of ISGRG

The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitational (ISGRG) has elected Professor Vítor Cardoso for President during the 2028-2031 triennium.

Vitor Cardoso receives Simons Foundation grant for strong gravity research

Vitor Cardoso is one of 12 PIs at different institutions, who will receive the support from the Simons Foundation for a collective project on gravity and black hole research.

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by a Danish bachelor student has uncovered surprising new details about the fine structure of cosmic dust in nearby galaxies.

First light from student-built radio telescope

During the last six months, academic employee Gaurav Kumar, together with master students Kaj Grimstrup, Jiazhe Li, and Omar Rashdan, have built two radio telescopes. One of them now observed its first light, while the…

Top Researchers Receive Multi-Million DKK Grants from Villum Foundation

How can we recycle plastic more effectively? And how can we transmit data using less energy? Eleven top researchers receive more than DKK 300 million from Villum Foundation for research that may help answer those…

Look up in May

Read here (in Danish) about which bright objects you can see on the night sky in May.

On the Trail of the Mystery of Time – New Book on Time for Non-Physicists

Associate Professor Troels Harmark has published a book, On the Trail of the Mystery of Time, which attempts to explain to ordinary people what the fascinating concept of "time" really is.

Kasper Elm Heintz among Berlingske’s Top 100 Talents

Congratulations to Kasper Elm Heintz, assistant professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center, who has been selected as one of the top 100 talents in Denmark 2025 in Berlingske’s annual award for his discoveries in observational…

James Webb discovers earliest sign of the Universe becoming transparent

The first galaxies in the Universe were born enshrouded in a “foggy” gas, and could not be seen clearly until they had cleared up this fog. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by astronomers…

European Research Award to Johan Samsing

Johan Samsing receives the European MERAC award 2025 for "Best Early Career Researcher" from the European Astronomical Society for his groundbreaking contribution to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.

“Super-Earth” in planetary system shedding new light on planetary evolution

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured.

New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the…

Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon

The emergent properties of the first ionizers - Lyman-Alpha and ionizing photon production at the edge of reionization Supervisor: Charlotte Mason

Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the…

Look up in January

Read here (in Danish) about interesting objects to see the stellar sky in December.

Rajeeb Sharma

Unveiling the Early Stages of Star and Planet Formation: Observational Insights From Studying Class 0 and I Protostars Supervisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy

Congratulations to PhD student Pengpei Zhu who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, for his master’s thesis at Leiden.

Look up in December

Read here (in Danish) about Orion and the red giant Betelgeuse in the stellar sky in December.

Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant

Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal investigators of the GWSky project, which was awarded 12 million euros by the European Research Council to investigate…

Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars

The temperature of elementary particles have been observed in the radioactive afterglow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole, and for the first time, made it possible to measure the…

"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher from the University of…

"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem

When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher from the University of…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…