News about Physics

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

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…

Meet Anna - New PhD in the A&A and E&O Teams

Anna has been at NQCP as a research assistant since September. She is now stepping into a new role as a PhD student here at NQCP in both our Algorithms & Applications and Education & Outreach groups. We caught up with…

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE WEEK ANNOUNCEMENT

CLUVEX VIRTUAL EXCHANGE (1 ECTS) 12—16 May 2025

Paper selected for Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2024

The paper "Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders" by Poul H. Damgaard and Kanghoon Lee has been selected to be one out of six papers in the Physical Review Letters section of Particles and…

PhD defense by Daniele Pica, NBI/Perugia

On February 20, 2025 at 14.00, in Aud. A. Daniele Pica will defend his PhD thesis supervised by Marta Orselli (University of Perugia) and Troels Harmark (NBI). The thesis defense will be in English.

Master defense by Miao Shang

On Monday January 13, 2025 at 13:15 in room Hb1 at Blegdamsvej, Miao Shang will defend her master thesis supervised by Jose Ezquiaga. Censor will be Marta Orselli (University of Perugia). The thesis defense will be in…

Strong at Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna

From December 9-13, 2024, the gravitational-wave explorers of the Strong group at the Niels Bohr Institute attended a conference on Lensing and Wave optics in Strong gravity at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

Julia Yeomans and Charles Marcus join NBIA's Scientific Advisory Board

We warmly welcome Julia Yeomans (Oxford University) and Charles Marcus (University of Washington & Niels Bohr Institute) who will join NBIA's International Science Advisory Board. They will participate in their first…

New international climate project in the North Atlantic

University of Copenhagen will lead a new international research project to improve knowledge of melting glaciers and ice sheet in the North Atlantic, its impact on global climate and ecosystems, and to support local…

CLUVEX course announcement

ONE WEEK VIRTUAL STUDENT EXCHANGE (VE) BY CLUVEX, 1 CREDIT POINT May 12.-16.2025

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

New Assistant Professor Ziqi Yan receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Clara Celeste Qvotrup

Nanomechanical Slot Waveguide Phase Shifters for Integrated Quantum Photonics Supervisor: Ass. prof. Leonardo Midolo

Niels Fabrin Nymand

Radar investigation of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream - Deriving the crystal orientation fabric Supervisors: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Christine S. Hvidberg

Journal cover to Ph.D. student for encapsulating Ibuprofen

PhD student, Charalampos Tsekeridis in the X-ray and Neutron Science group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has got a journal cover for his work on creating microantibubbles to encapsulate Ibuprofen.