News about Astrophysics

Breaking news from the dawn of the universe

Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The international research team is led by astronomers from the University of…

Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and DTU discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe. This is the…

Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and DTU discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe. This is the…

New research on how to quantify quantum effects on black holes

Professor in Physics, Vitor Cardoso from the Niels Bohr Institute, NBIA, has received a DNRF Chair grant from the Danish National Research Foundation to study and quantify quantum effects on astrophysical black holes

Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now…

Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now…

David John Willumsen

Title: Effect of Water in Cool Atmospheres Supervisors: Uffe Gråae Jørgensen

Charlotte Cramer Kristensen

Title: Investigation of the existence and expected mass of a companion black hole for Sagittarius A* Supervisor: Anja C. Andersen

Harald Sigurd Okkels

Mastering MOXIE - Perovskite Anode Supported Cells and Gas flow Analysis for the Development of a Martian Solid Oxide Electrolysis Based Propellant Plant Supervisors: Morten Bo Madsen (NBI) and Anke Hagen (DTU) …

Stephanie Zielke Fleron

Title: NASAs Mars 2020 Mission to Jezero Crater from landing to Sol 130 - A Mastcam-Z geology student collaborators experiences and work on the M2020 Mission Supervisor: Kjartan Münster Kinch

New analysis leads to a fundamentally different view of supermassive black holes

In the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these are actively feeding on the gas and dust around them, expelling excess energy as powerful jets that are seen as quasars across the entire…

Cecillie P. Knudsen

Simulated Mars Environments Supervisors: Uffe Gråae Jørgensen, Morten Bo Madsen, Anders Priemé

A novel way of investigating star-forming gas in the early Universe

Combining observations of exploding stars and observations of galaxies, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center have found a novel way to estimate the amount of the otherwise invisible, cold gas in some of the first…

Michael D. Hansen

Stratigraphy and origin of geologic units in Jezero crater, Mars Supervisor: Kjartan M. Kinch

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

Katrine Frantzen

Spectral Analysis of the Kilonova AT2017GFO using Tardis and X-shooter Data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Katrine Høier Frantzen

Title: Spectral analysis of the kilonova AT2017gfo using TARDIS and X-shooter data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Nikki Arendse

Cosmic Dissonance - Addressing tensions in modern cosmology Supervisors: Prof. Jens Hjorth and Dr. Radosław Jan Wojtak

Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

Jo Verwohlt Damm

Title: Future Cosmological Constraints on Dark Matter Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Radosław Wojtak

Reported record-distant explosion turns out to be probably just a piece of space junk

A perspective into how science sometimes operates: Even with the most careful measures taken to ensure the validity of a scientific result, every so often some results are bound to turn out to be mistaken or inaccurate.…

Matthieu Williams

Title: Statistics, Properties and Origin of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshifts in the IllustrisTNG Universe Supervisors: Steen H. Hansen, Michaela M. Hirschmann

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among others, have peered back 10-12 billion years into the universe and found six galaxies that mysteriously ran out of gas…

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among others, have peered back 10-12 billion years into the universe and found six galaxies that mysteriously ran out of gas…