News about Physics

NBI joins the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration was responsible for the discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes in 2015, which granted the founders of the project the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017. Since then…

Clara Giménez Arteaga

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

Svend Krøjer Møller

Controlling and Protecting Coherent QuantumStates Academic advisor: Prof. Karsten Flensberg

Thesis award to black hole spectroscopy measurements

Strong member Gregorio Carullo received a prize from his Alma Mater, the University of Pisa, for the best PhD thesis in the field of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Geoscience, defended in 2022. The prize wa…

Hans Stærkind

Optical Magnetometry for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik, Assoc. Prof. Esben T. Petersen and Research Fellow Vincent O. Boer.

ngEHT white paper on Fundamental Physics

Black holes can be studied with gravitational waves, but also with light. After the pioneering Event Horizon Telescope images, the next generation observatories - ngEHT - promise to give us amazing new information on…

04. December 2023

Fortunat and Remi setting up the dual-tube snow sampling: photo O. Alemany

Familiar figure new head of physicists

Professor Joachim Mathiesen will take up his position as the new head of the Niels Bohr Institute from 1 December 2023. He will be responsible for leading a department in rapid national and international development.

Joachim Mathiesen new head of Niels Bohr Institute

Professor Joachim Mathiesen will take up his position as the new head of the Niels Bohr Institute from 1 December 2023. He will be responsible for leading an institute in rapid national and international development.

Rodrigo Macedo receives EuCAPT travel grant

Rodrigo Panosso Macedo has received an EuCAPT International Exchange Award to initiate a collaboration between the Strong Group and the Relativity group at the University College Dublin (UCD). This joint projected was…

Visiting The Yukawa Institute

Vitor Cardoso is a Visiting Professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he will work on black hole spectroscopy and environmental effects and establish new collaborations with researchers at the…

Sofus Laguna Kristensen

Narrow linewidth superradiant lasing with cold88Sr Supervisor: Jörg Helge Müller

Valeriy Novikov

Entangled states of light and atomic spin oscillators for quantum noise reduction in Gravitational Wave Detectors Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs. Using 700 years’ worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists at the University of…

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs. Using 700 years’ worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists at the University of…

Conversations at Niels Bohr Office

How about we take some of the most profound thinkers of our time and we talk about science? No cuts, no editing, after all, as Seinfeld - one of the leading philosophers of our century - said "The subject should resolv…

NBI Spin-out enterprise receives prestigious tech-transfer award

QDevil, a quantum technology spin-out enterprise from the Niels Bohr Institute, has been awarded “The Technology Transfer Prize 2024” from German Physical Society. (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)

New partnership with Brazilian funding agency CNPq

Senior postdoctoral fellow in the Strong group, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, has successfully established an international collaborative network in partnership with the Brazilian funding agency CNPq (National Council for…

Sensing the signature of life

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have removed a key obstacle for development of extremely sensitive monitoring devices based on quantum technology.

To over-ring or not to over-ring?

Image credit LIGO-Virgo collaboration Strong members Gregorio Carullo and Vitor Cardoso, together with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University, have recently published a [Reply](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20625) t…

Gravity Seminars Fall 2023

The Strong group is co-organizing the NBIA Gravity Seminar Series. This Fall we have these speakers on the program: October 17, 2023: Josu Aurrekoetxea, University of Oxford: Strong-gravity signatures from relics of th…

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.

Ida Egholm Nielsen

Measurements and manipulation protocols of parafermionicmodes Academic advisor: Assoc. Prof.Michele Burrello

Astronomy on Tap

Jose Ezquiaga and Vitor Cardoso were the guest speakers at Astronomy on Tap, at Huset in Copenhagen. They had a full house to listen to the latest and not-so-latest news on black holes and gravitational waves. At half…