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Boosting high-frequency gravitational wave and ultralight dark matter searches

Boosting high-frequency gravitational wave and ultralight dark matter searches

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…

Firuza Foundation Fellowship to NBIA

Thanks to generous support from the Firuza Foundation NBIA has been able to dedicate a 3-year Firuza Foundation Fellowship to new theoretical developments in Quantum Sciences. The initiative aims at capitalizing on …

Look up in May

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

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to CERN LHC experiments

The Fundamental Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to all the physicists that have contributed to the success of the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN.

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.

Staff Picks on Wolfram Community

Work by Strong Members is a Feature by the Staff Picks on Wolfram Community. The work, Forward ray tracing and hot spots in Kerr spacetime, was developed by Lihang Zhou a visiting student at Strong, Zhen Zhong, Yifan…

Cosmic whispers made LOUD by intervening matter

Every few minutes, somewhere in the Universe, a black hole encounters another and starts a fateless ritual around each other until their collision. Through this dance, space and time is excited, producing vibrations…

Johan Samsing recieves 2025 MERAC Prize

Johan Samsing receives this year's MERAC prize, which is awarded by the European Astronomical Society, for his pioneering work on ways to probe the origin of binary black hole mergers in the new era of observational…

Quantum Sensing

On January 20–21, a group of CBQS researchers from DTU — Sarah, Luca, Chu-Dan, and Alex — participated in a workshop on solid-state quantum sensing and hyperpolarization in Ulm. The event addressed both experimental and…

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…

Strong field gravity in India

Vitor visited colleagues Kothawala, Mishra and Sriramkumar at Chennai and delivered the Chandrasekhar Lecture

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…

János Takátsy and Lorenz Zwick receive EU MSCA Fellowships

2 EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

Gravitating Gestures

Gravitating Gestures (2025) captures the intimate processes of theoretical discovery, focusing on eleven physicists of the Niels Bohr Institute navigating the abstract planes of black hole physics.

Photography Competition at STRONG

Our latest social gathering uniquely blended science and art with a pre-screening of Gravitating Gestures, a captivating video artwork by Sjoerd Knibbeler, created during his 2024 residency with the Strong Group.

Galaxies do not affect black hole spectroscopy

When a black hole is disturbed, it “rings” like a bell before settling down - a phenomenon known as black hole ringdown. The study of the vibration modes of black holes is called spectroscopy, in analogy with atomic…

Strong students write paper in ´Lenshouse´

A group of the Strong PhD students, Juno Chan, Conor Dyson, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, and Luka Vujeva, along with a master's student, Matilde Garcia, set out on a research retreat in order to produce a paper in just one week

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.

Iterative quantum phase estimation: a trade-off between number of iterations and circuit dimensions

Iterative quantum phase estimation: a trade-off between number of iterations and circuit dimensions

“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.

Major project launched: improving climate models with historical data

How can climate history help us create a more accurate picture of the future climate? A major European consortium, consisting of 24 partners, will spend the next four years working intensively to answer this question.

Jacob Bourjaily receives Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize 2025

At an award ceremony on February 24. former NBIA Associate Professor Jacob Bourjaily received the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025

Filippo Leveraro

Title: Novel Techniques for Fast and Precise Estimation of Qubit Decay Rates Supervisors: Jacob Hastrup and Morten Kjaergaaard