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The core of massive dying galaxies already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang…

Vojtech PACÍK

Investigation of azimuthal anisotropy using multi-particle correlations of identified hadrons at the LHC with ALICE detector

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow Eugene S. Polzik, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, the 2020 recipient of the Herbert Wather Award.…

Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies far beyond previous beliefs, says new study from the Niels Bohr Institute

Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This is the…

Professor Charles Marcus awarded the Industrial Award 2019 from The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences

This year’s recipient of the Industrial Award is Charles Marcus, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and Scientific Director of Microsoft Quantum – Copenhagen.

Suk Joo Ko

Spectroscopy of red Quasars Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Laurits S. Andreasen

Time scales of the Bipolar seesaw: The role of oceanic cross-hemisphere signals, Southern Ocean eddies and wind changes Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Extremely energetic particles coupled with the violent death of a star for the first time

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU Space in Lyngby have determined the emission of extremely energetic light particles during the death of a very heavy star for the first time.

Anders Søndberg Sørensen awarded Optical Society of America Fellow

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honors the individual new fellow and the contribution he/she has made to the field of optics and photonics or achievements…

Junxin Chen

Quantum Correlations Generated by a Soft-Clamped Membrane-in-the-Middle System Academic supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Climate change resulting in bigger and more destructive hurricanes in the USA

During the last 100 years hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive, new research from the University of Copenhagen shows.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded the Mohn Prize for her important role in climate change research

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen together with former Minister of Education and Research Tommy Ahlers in Greenland. The Scientific Committee wrote in their recommendation: “By ranking Dorthe Dahl-Jensen first, the committee…

The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

For the first time, an element heavier than iron has been clearly detected in the collision of two neutron stars, resolving one of the fundamental questions about the history of the universe.

The Niels Bohr Institute to Research Particle with Great Potential in the Construction of the Quantum Computer

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Lund University have with a European Research Council Synergy Grant, become able to do the necessary fundamental research needed for affirming the potential the researchers…

Yeghishe Tsaturyan

Ultracoherent soft-clamped mechanical resonators for quantum cavity optomechanics

Estelle L. Ngoumtsa

A new reconstruction of climatic impurities in the Sub-Antarctic region - Continuous Flow Analysis of the SubICE firn cores: Mertz, Siple, Bouvet, Peter-First, Young Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Vallelonga

Mikkel Stockmann

Genesis of Giants - Massive Galaxy Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years Supervisor: Prof. Sune Toft

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Researchers from the section Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) have succeeded in making a method to enlighten an otherwise dark period in climate history.

Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies, linking dark matter to galaxy formation

An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion light years away using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes in Hawaii.

Quantum Alchemy: Researchers use laser light to transform metal into magnet

Pioneering physicists from the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a way to get non-magnetic materials to make themselves magnetic by way of laser light.

3 researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive grants from Villum Fonden

VILLUM FONDEN awards DKK 98.5 million in grants to 52 bold research projects within the technical and natural sciences. For the third year running, VILLUM FONDEN has selected innovative research projects to receive…

Ida Torkjellsdatter Storehaug

Improving the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Estimation in IceCube Supervisor: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen

Mia-Louise Nielsen

Transient Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube-DeepCore Supervisors: Dr. D. Jason Koskinen and Dr. Morten A. Medici

Steffen Ole Randrup Kristensen

Extending the Veros climate simulator with biochemistry - Model design and AMOC collapse Supervisors: Brian Vinter & Markus Jochum