Black holes: 2024.10.30 Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars The temperature of elementary particles have been observed in the radioactive afterglow following…
Astrophysics 2024.10.11 "Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that…
The first galaxies: 2024.05.30 James Webb discovers record-distant galaxy, again With the confirmation of two galaxies seen around 300 million years after the Big Bang, we are now…
The universe 2024.05.23 Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to…
Astrophysics: 2024.05.23 First results from ESA’s space telescope Euclid Today, the first scientific studies using data from ESA’s latest space telescope, Euclid, have been…
Astrophysics 2024.05.21 Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars…
Quantum physics 2024.03.26 Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find…
Gamma-ray burst: 2023.10.25 Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars A a team of researchers including astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute has used the James Webb…
Neutron stars: 2023.10.02 Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the Universe…
THE EARLY UNIVERSE: 2023.09.20 Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in…
The early Universe: 2023.09.11 A galaxy group in the early Universe Contrary to typical observations, the galaxy was discovered not by the light it emits, but by the…
The early Universe: 2023.05.17 James Webb’s “too massive” galaxies may be even more massive The first results from the James Webb Space Telescope have hinted at galaxies so early and so…
Black holes & Gravitational waves: 2024.11.05 Maarten van de Meent awarded ERC Synergy grant Maarten van de Meent, current member of the Strong Group at NBI, is one of the four principal…
Picture of the institute: 2024.10.07 The annual Niels Bohr Institute photo October 7 is the birthday of Niels Bohr, and according to our tradition at the institute, the annua…