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The early Universe:

James Webb finds surprisingly mature galaxies in early cosmic megastructure

Danish astronomy student leads new research: Some of the heaviest galaxy groups in the universe hav…

Copenhagen researchers make the front page of Nature: Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzle…

How Many Ghost Particles All the Milky Way’s Stars Send Towards Earth

Every second, a trillion of the elusive ghost particles, the neutrinos, pass straight through your…

Bachelor Project:

Development History of the Universe is Being Rewritten Based on a Bachelor’s Project from NBI

The largest structures in the universe are galaxy clusters—groups of galaxies held together by…

Grønningen 2025 Exhibition:

NBI Scientists Contribute to New Eske Kath Artwork for Grønningen 2025 Exhibition

This week, two researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Assistant Professor Sarah Pearson and…

Sarah Pearson modtager Mindelegat

Sarah Pearson modtager Kirstine Meyers Mindelegat fra Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse (SNU).

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…

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…

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