Niels Bohr Institute

Happening at the Niels Bohr Institute

Vitor Cardoso receives Simons Foundation grant for strong gravity research

Vitor Cardoso is one of 12 PIs at different institutions, who will receive the support from the…

A more complete expansion for black hole ringdown waveforms

Black hole spectroscopy is the program of measuring how black holes "ring down" to infer their…

City Medal for Vitor Cardoso

Vitor was honoured by the city of Póvoa de Varzim, for his outstanding scientific contributions to…

Vikings in Roskilde:

Strong sails like the Vikings

On a wind-whipped day, June 14, 2025, in Roskilde, members of the Strong group embarked on an…

Master defense:

Master defense by Matilde Garcia

On June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM in room HB1 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Matilde Garcia will defend he…

Black holes vibrate:

All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy

Black holes vibrate, like stars, or guitar strings. The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating…

"Kig op" at Videnskab.dk

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Environmental Dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

With the upcoming launch of the LISA mission, scientists will detect gravitational waves at lower…

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters:

Cosmic Waltz

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters shows that electromagnetic observations of star…

Galaxies 2023 Best Paper Award

Galaxies Best Paper Award

The paper "Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope” by the ngEHT…

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…