Niels Bohr Institute

Happening at the Niels Bohr Institute

It stays in the family – Villum grant for Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen

Siblings and professors Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen receive Villum Synergy grant to investigate the…

Din månedlige guide til stjernehimlen:

Kig op i oktober: Dæmonstjernen pulserer i de mørke nætter

Mørke og ikke for kolde nætter giver optimale forhold for stjernekiggere i en oktober, som byder på…

University of Manitoba News:

World-Renowned Climate Scientist Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen honoured by Royal Society of Canada

September 4, 2025 — World leading polar researcher Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen is among the newest…

European Research Council (ERC):

Two young researchers from NBI awarded ERC starting grants

Stefano Paesani and Mathias Heltberg are among the 478 early-career researchers across Europe to…

Climate Workshop for Students:

Call for Participation: 3rd Virtual Exchange (VE) Week - October 6-10, 2025

We are pleased to invite BSc, MSc, PhD students and Postdocs, to take part in the 3rd Virtual…

Tycho supercomputer:

Tycho supercomputer gets new green superpowers

With a new expansion of the Tycho supercomputer, the University of Copenhagen will get its first…

Early Career Prize:

Jose M. Ezquiaga Receives General Relativity and Gravitation Early Career Prize

Associate Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga at the Niels Bohr Institute was awarded the 2025 IUPAP…

Vitor Cardoso Elected President of ISGRG

The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitational (ISGRG) has elected Professor…

Gravitational waves:

The Most Massive Binary Black Hole Observed Through Gravitational Waves

GW231123, the most massive binary black hole observed through gravitational waves

Carlsberg Mindelegat:

Black holes in comic books!

Black hole physics comic art

Research news

Quantum computing:

The anomalous metal – new light on the strange behavior of quantum fluctuations between competing states of matter

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors fro…

Largest collision ever recorded:

Colossal Collisions in Space send Shockwaves through the Universe: Gravitational waves break records with new observations

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measur…