News about Physics

Supernova or black hole? Ghost particles’ “flavor” may determine the fate of dying stars

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that previously overlooked property of ghost particles may be a key part of the explanation for why some stars explode, while others collapse into black holes.

Assistant Professor of Quantum Technology Didactics, Niels Bohr Institute - NQCP, Department of Science Education - USE Center.

The Department of Science education and the Niels Bohr Institute jointly announces the availability an Assistant Professor position. The position will be hosted within the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for University…

Amin Doostmohammadi to lead new 75M DKK center on the Physics of Living Tissue

Active Matter is one of the most promising avenues in Biological Physics today. Amin Doostmahammadi's new center will tackle one of biology's most fundamental questions: How do individual cells coordinate their actions…

Researchers create a Little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the Universe’s first moments

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in recreating the primordial matter that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang – by smashing much smaller atomic nuclei together than previously…

Breakthrough in unusual galaxy may help unravel the mystery of dark matter

For the first time, researchers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way – specifically in an ultra-diffuse galaxy.

Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro joins NBIA as MSCA Fellow

Marcelo earned his PhD in July 2022 from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, followed by a three-year postdoctoral associate position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Marcelo will join the…

Niels Bohr Institute Wins Flagship European Grant for the Physics of Living Matter

International research team, led by Amin Doostmohammadi at NBI, awarded the first European edition of Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme

Kurt Stokbro Joins CBQS spin-out

Deep-tech investor and entrepreneur Kurt Stokbro joins Magnolia Quantum Sensing as business advisor and first investor, supporting the commercialization of breakthrough quantum sensing technology for MRI.

A new model for dark energy rewrites the fate of the Universe

New study based on six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey challenges the standard cosmological model - could force a rethink of what drives the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

Martin Pessah Receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

The award recognizes internationally renowned researchers for their outstanding academic achievements and future potential. It will support extended research visits to Germany, during which Martin Pessah will strengthe…

Third BOHR21 Workshop hosted by the Niels Bohr Archive

The Third BOHR21 Workshop takes place in Copenhagen from 29 June to 1 July 2026 in the historic Auditorium A at the old Niels Bohr Institute.

Irene Tamborra receives Villum Ascending Investigator Grant

Irene Tamborra is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Niels Bohr International Academy. She is also a Mercator Fellow (equivalent to a Visiting Professor) at the Max Planck Institutes for Physics and Astrophysics in…

Longstanding Quantum communication barrier broken

Long standing barrier broken – It is now possible to send single photons that can’t be copied or split and are completely secure – in our ordinary network of optical fibers. The secure internet is within reach.

Andrew Chael receives Villum Young Investigator Grant

Andrew Chael was most recently an associate research scholar at the Princeton University Gravity Initiative. He previously held a NASA Einstein Fellowship at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. He received his…

Lucía Vélez Tartajo Wins Best Oral Presentation Award at the MSc Student Symposium

Each year, the Niels Bohr Institute hosts the MSc Student Symposium, an event where master’s students present their research projects and thesis work to their peers.

A Guided Tour Into a Black Hole

On Tuesday, 24 March, Center of Gravity (CoG) members Ariadna Ribes Metidieri, Leart Sabani, and Lucía Vélez Tartajo took part in the first outreach event organized by the Center of Gravity: a public talk at the Tycho…

Brian Møller Andersen receives the Jens Martin Knudsen Award 2025

At the Niels Bohr Institute kickoff on 12 March 2026, the award for Teacher of the Year at the Niels Bohr Institute—the Jens Martin Knudsen Award—was presented to two recipients for two separate periods.

Markus Ahlers receives the Jens Martin Knudsen Award 2024

At the Niels Bohr Institute kickoff on 12 March 2026, the award for Teacher of the Year at the Niels Bohr Institute—the Jens Martin Knudsen Award—was presented to two recipients for two separate periods.

Two CoG Members Receive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

Two CoG members, Brian Seymour and Emil Have, have been awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants which support outstanding researchers and aims to encourage mobility across the European Union.

Kai Hendriks Successfully Defends his Thesis

On March 13th, Kai Hendriks successfully defended his PhD thesis in the historic Auditorium A of the Niels Bohr Institute.

Jaime Redondo-Yuste Successfully Defends his Thesis

Jaime Redondo-Yuste successfully defended his thesis on Friday March 6th. He presented his work on Nonlinear Dynamics in General Relativity in the historic Auditorium A, summarizing his work on black hole and neutron…

Sold-out Black Holes event at Vin & Videnskab

On Wednesday February 25, 2026, Professor Marianne Vestergaard (DARK, Niels Bohr Institute) gave a presentation on supermassive black holes at a sold-out event of Vin & Videnskab, organized by the National Museum of…

Troels Harmark Discusses Art and Science at the Opening of Black Hole Artwork at ARoS

On March 6, 2026, artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm debuted her new interactive art installation “A black hole calling us” at the ARoS art museum in Aarhus which also inaugurated the new art square outside the museum.

Contact: CoG Meets ET

CoG group leaders represented the scientific front of gravitational wave physics at a danish delegation to the Einstein Telescope (March 2–3, 2026), joined by politicians, ambassadors and fellow scientists from around…