News about Physics

New insights into gamma-ray Burst afterglows

Gamma-ray bursts are powerful bursts of gamma radiation in connection with the explosive death of massive stars. The bursts themselves are short lived – typically less than a few minutes, but is followed by an afterglow…

Immo Nathanael Söllner

Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Waveguides: from efcient single photon sources to deterministic photon-photon interaction Supervisor: Professor Peter Lodahl

Cosmic collision creates mini-planet with rings

Until now, rings of material in a disc have only been observed around giant planets like Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and especially Saturn, which is known for its spectacular rings. Now astronomers from NBI, have observed…

Unavoidable disorder used to build nanolaser

Researchers at NBI have discovered that imperfect nanostructures can offer entirely new functionalities. They have shown that imperfect optical chips can be used to produce ‘nanolasers’, which is an ultimately compact…

Johan Samsing receives the prestigious Einstein Fellowship

Johan Samsing, who is just about to complete his PhD at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called ‘Einstein…

Hans Christian Stærkind

Experimental Realization of Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy on 88Sr Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Ultra sensitive detection of radio waves with lasers

When detecting radio waves ‘noise’ in the instrument limits how sensitive and precise the measurements can be. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new method where they can avoid noise by means…

Stream of stars in Andromeda satellite galaxy shows cosmic collision

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from NBI, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Galaxy’s outer satellite galaxies, called Andromeda II.

Tolga Bağcı

Opto-Electromechanical Device for Low-Noise Detection of Radio Waves Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Simon Polzik

Mars research receives FNU grant

Morten Bo Madsen, who leads the Mars Group in Astrophysics and Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of just over 3.8 million kroner from FNU, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural…

First images of star cluster from the Gaia Satellite

The Gaia Satellite has already sent its first images down to Earth approximately 40 days after its launch on the 19th of December. They show a dense collection of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud at a distance of…

Morten Dam Jørgensen

Exotic Long Lived Particles

Sune Jakobsen

Commissioning of the Absolute Luminosity For ATLAS detector at the LHC

Early galaxies grew massive through collisions

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang

6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research

Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Research Infrastructure under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The funds are granted for the operation…

Myriam Guillevic

Characterization of rapid climate changes through isotope analyses of ice and entrapped air in the NEEM ice core Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Allan Finnich

An investigation in introducing Matlab and data analysis in introductory physics Supervisor: Ian G. Bearden

10.8 million kroner for research into quantum information technology

Two researchers, Mark Rudner and Michael J. Kastoryano from the Niels Bohr Institute, have received support from the VILLUM FOUNDATION’s Young Investigator Programme for research into quantum information technology.

Teddy Fjeldgaard Frederiksen

NURSERIES OF SUPERNOVAE A STUDY OF YOUNG HIGH REDSHIFT TYPE IA SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXIES Supervisor: Jens Hjorth

Martina Falco

DYNAMICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS AND THEIR OUTSKIRTS: beyond the virialization regime Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

Eugene Polzik’s research chosen as the year’s best by Ingeniøren

Ingeniøren (The Engineer) has chosen Eugene Polzik’s research on teleporation as the year’s most important Danish research results in science. Eugene Polzik is the head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr…

Ice and Climate participates with a newly developed drilling system in the Antarctic project

A completely new drilling system will give faster, easier and cheaper access to good climate data. Through 1 1/2 years of intensive work the Center for Ice and Climate has further developed the equipment to the legendar…

Ernesto Kettner

Highly Resolved Paleoclimatic Aerosol Records: Continuous Flow Analysis and the Potential of Flow Cytometry for the Characterisation of Aeolian Dust in Polar Ice Cores Academic advisor: Thomas Blunier

Centre people to Antarctic

In the beginning of December 2013 three scientists from the Centre for Ice and Climate fly to the Antarctic.