Niels Bohr Institute

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.

Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb

11 top researchers are now receiving over 300 million DKK from the Villum Foundation for research, one of the grants to a NBI-researcher.

VILLUM INVESTIGATOR 2025:

Top Researchers Receive Multi-Million Villum Foundation Grants

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries representing four experimental collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.

GREAT HONOUR FOR CERN RESEARCH:

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to CERN LHC experiments

Physics at the University of Copenhagen

At the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, we research and teach within a broad spectrum of physics areas: Quantum computers and quantum communication, astrophysics, particle physics, computational physics, solid state physics, climate and geophysics and biophysics.

Labs and research facilities

With us, you get access to a wide range of advanced equipment in bio- and quantum technology, supercomputers, workshops in both electronics and mechanics as well as special laboratory facilities that are necessary to support the research process. Our astrophysicists have observation time on the largest telescopes, e.g. James Webb Space Telescope.

Research news

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…

The early Universe:

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…

Happening at NBI

Villlum Grants:

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…

Great honor for CERN research:

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to CERN LHC experiments

The Fundamental Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to all the physicists that have contributed to…

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