News about Astrophysics

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…

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…

Look up in May

Read here (in Danish) about which bright objects you can see on the night sky in May.

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…

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…

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.

Galaxies do not affect black hole spectroscopy

When a black hole is disturbed, it “rings” like a bell before settling down - a phenomenon known as black hole ringdown. The study of the vibration modes of black holes is called spectroscopy, in analogy with atomic…

European Research Award to Johan Samsing

Johan Samsing receives the European MERAC award 2025 for "Best Early Career Researcher" from the European Astronomical Society for his groundbreaking contribution to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.

“Super-Earth” in planetary system shedding new light on planetary evolution

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured.

New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the…

Gonzalo Prieto-Lyon

The emergent properties of the first ionizers - Lyman-Alpha and ionizing photon production at the edge of reionization Supervisor: Charlotte Mason

Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the…

Look up in January

Read here (in Danish) about interesting objects to see the stellar sky in December.

Rajeeb Sharma

Unveiling the Early Stages of Star and Planet Formation: Observational Insights From Studying Class 0 and I Protostars Supervisor: Jes K. Jørgensen

Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy

Congratulations to PhD student Pengpei Zhu who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, for his master’s thesis at Leiden.