News about Astrophysics

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that…

Andrew Wayne Mayo

Detecting and Characterizing Small Planets in Diverse Environments DTU Advisor: Lars A. Buchhave, UCB Advisor: Courtney Dressing, KU Advisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

Thorsten Balduin

Dusty grain in charging protoplanetary disks and the potential emergence of lightning Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Largest James Webb program yet approved: led by researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center

Among the successful proposals that have now been selected by the committee is the largest program ever conducted with Webb, “COSMOS-3D”, led by assistant professor Koki Kakiichi at the Cosmic Dawn Center.

Sarah Pearson receives an ERC starting grant

NBI Assistant Professor has been awarded an ERC starting Grant from the European Commission.

Vadim Rusakov

Star formation in galaxies across cosmic time - Stellar Populations in Multiwavelength Photometric Observations Supervisor: Charles L Steinhardt

Zhen Li

The phenomenological study on alternative black holes and dark matter distribution Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole

University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems…

Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole

University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems…

Sarah Pearson among Berlingske’s top 100 talents

Each year Berlingske selects the 100 most promising young talents in Denmark in private industry and the public sector.

Lightning on exoplanets: Benefits to learning physics outside the solar system

Taking physics teaching several light-years away from our own planet can help students understand that the laws of physics are universal.

Aaron David Schneider

Bridging Atmospheres and Interiors: Exploring Exoplanetary Gas Giants Supervisor: Uffe Gråe Jørgensen

Award-winning researcher dreams of stellar explosions and strives for equity and inclusion in academia

She studies the giant explosions of dying stars and dreams of experiencing and extracting data from a supernova close to Earth. Professor Irene Tamborra from the Niels Bohr Institute also tirelessly promotes equity and…

Ida Sternberg Holk

Title: Characterization of formaldehyde as molecular tracer in protostellar regions Supervisor: Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Jesper Larsen

Title: Automated Analysis and of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Found in Spectra of Background Quasars Supervisor: Lise Bech Christensen

Clara Giménez Arteaga

Resolving Stellar Populations in Galaxies Across 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Time Supervisor: Gabriel B. Brammer

Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars

A a team of researchers including astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a gamma-ray burst, which turned out to be the second-brightest ever seen.

Meghana Killi

Morphology and Spectroscopy of Highredshift Galaxies - Galaxy evolution through multi-wavelength observations Supervisor: Darach Watson

Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe

In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the Universe expands, and although we know approximately how fast, the two primary ways to measure this expansion do not agree. Now…

Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created.

Rasmus Damgaard Nielsen

Title: Massively parallel simulation of dusty protostellar systems Supervisors: Troels Haugbølle, Åke Nordlund

A galaxy group in the early Universe

Contrary to typical observations, the galaxy was discovered not by the light it emits, but by the light it absorbs. The galaxy itself evades observations, but has at least one nearby companion.

Alejandro Maza Villalpando

Title: Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Stellar Parameters in Realistic Molecular Cloud Environments Supervisor: Troels Haugbølle

Johannes Fuglseth Bæk

Title: Black Hole Merger in Active Galactic Nuclei environment through 3-body interactions Supervisor: Johan Samsing