News about Physics

Environmental Dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

With the upcoming launch of the LISA mission, scientists will detect gravitational waves at lower frequencies than ever before, and this will bring new data on galactic centres and the monstrous black holes that reside…

Cosmic Waltz

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters shows that electromagnetic observations of stars

Galaxies Best Paper Award

The paper "Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope” by the ngEHT collaboration, where Vitor Cardoso was Working Group leader and Yifan Chen Topic Leader, was selected as the winner of the…

Center Coordinator retreat 2025

From September 1, 2025, the new Center of Gravity funded by the Danish National Research Foundation will officially start.

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.

The 5th Scandinavian meeting on gravitational-wave science

The Scandinavian community has been producing exciting results in the field and met for the 5th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Scandinavia on May 15 and 16 at the University of Copenhagen.

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…

Charlotte Fløe Kristjansen receives Villum Investigator Grant

Professor Charlotte Fløe Kristjansen, currently the Deputy Head of Institute for Research at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) has been awarded a Villum Investigator grant of 20Mkr from the Villum Foundation to explore how…

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.