Interview with Politiken’s science editor:
6 March 2026
Sold-out Black Holes event at Vin & Videnskab
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 Natural History (Statens Naturhistoriske Museum) in Copenhagen.
Her presentation also included some of the research that she and her team at DARK are pursuing where they use a recently discovered dramatically and uniquely varying active galactic nucleus as a laboratory to understand how a supermassive black hole interacts with its immediate surroundings and accretes material.
Understanding this process is important for understanding the role that supermassive black holes play in how galaxies evolve, because these black holes are predominantly actively accreting when the galaxies are in their early evolutionary phases.
More information on the team research can be found here: https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/research/black-holes/?1
DK: Det var en kæmpe fornøjelse at gæste Vin & Videnskab i onsdags d. 25. februar. Jeg gav et oplæg om supertunge sorte huller og min forskning deri til en fyldt sal med et meget oplagt publikum.
Stor tak til Dante-Salvatore Lauretta fra Lunar and Planetary Lab ved University of Arizona for et meget spændende foredrag om OSIRIS-Rex-missionen som inkluderede flotte optagelser af hvordan de høstede materiale fra Bennu astroiden.
Tusind tak til Mogens Trolle og Statens Naturhistoriske Museum for et fantastisk arrangement.
Contact
Marianne Vestergaard, Professor
E-mail: mvester@nbi.ku.dk
Telefon: +45 35 32 59 09