https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/ en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:28:42 +0200 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:28:42 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_allison/ Allison Wing Shan Man successfully defended her PhD thesis "Galaxy Evolution Over the Past Eleven Billion... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_allison/ Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_asger/ Congratulations to Asger Grønnow who successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_asger/ Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_martin/ Martin Sparre successfully defended his PhD thesis "Galaxy formation: observations and simulations of... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_martin/ Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using-supermassive-black-holes-to-measure-cosmic-distances/ One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using-supermassive-black-holes-to-measure-cosmic-distances/" alt="Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances" title="Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news14/using-supermassive-black-holes-to-measure-cosmic-distances/sort_hul55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using-supermassive-black-holes-to-measure-cosmic-distances/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using_supermassive_black_holes_to_measure_cosmic_distances/ One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. Research from...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using_supermassive_black_holes_to_measure_cosmic_distances/" alt="Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances" title="Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news14/mystery-of-dwarf-galaxy-could-be-ejected-black-hole/Keck_Observatoriet_55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/using_supermassive_black_holes_to_measure_cosmic_distances/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:15:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/mystery-of-dwarf-galaxy-could-be-ejected-black-hole/ Astronomers have observed a mysterious pheno- menon, which could be a massive black hole that has been...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/mystery-of-dwarf-galaxy-could-be-ejected-black-hole/" alt="Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole " title="Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole "><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news14/mystery-of-dwarf-galaxy-could-be-ejected-black-hole/Keck_Observatoriet_55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/mystery-of-dwarf-galaxy-could-be-ejected-black-hole/ Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:15:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_xue/ Xue Li successfully successfully defended her PhD thesis "Exploring Cosmology with Supernovae - A study... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congrats_xue/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/welcome_arianna/ This week, Arianna Di Cintio starts as a new DARK Fellow. She recently received her PhD at Universidad... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/welcome_arianna/ Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratsece/ Ece Kilerci Ese successfully defended her PhD thesis "Active Galaxies: A Study of Local Seyferts and... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratsece/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/lise_bech_christensen_receives_ydun/ Congratulations to Lise Bech Christensen, who this week was awarded 6,457,791 kr. for the project: Galaxy... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/lise_bech_christensen_receives_ydun/ Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratssarah/ Congratulations to Sarah Massalkhi who successfully defended her Master’s thesis Tuesday 30... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratssarah/ Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/camilla_hansen_villum_postdoc/ Camilla Juul Hansen started this month as a 2-year Villum postdoc.  She works on chemical evolution... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/camilla_hansen_villum_postdoc/ Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:30:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/new_student_helper/ Lise is DARKs new student helper. She'll be at DARK for approx. 10 hours/3 days pr. week. She will help... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/new_student_helper/ Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:15:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/nature-dust-formed-in-supernova/ New research published in Nature shows that not only can grains of dust form in gigantic supernova explosions,... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/nature-dust-formed-in-supernova/ Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:30:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/enrico-ramirez-ruiz-new-adjunct-professor/ Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, USA,...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/enrico-ramirez-ruiz-new-adjunct-professor/" alt="Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, new adjunct professor of high energy astrophysics" title="Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, new adjunct professor of high energy astrophysics"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/namely_names/2014/enrico-ramirez-ruiz-new-adjunct-professor-of-high-energy-physics/enrico55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/enrico-ramirez-ruiz-new-adjunct-professor/ Mon, 19 May 2014 09:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/-new-insights-into-grb-afterglows/ Gamma-ray bursts are powerful bursts of gamma radiation in connection with the explosive death of massive... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/-new-insights-into-grb-afterglows/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/johan-samsing/ Johan Samsing, who is just about to complete his PhD at Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute,...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/johan-samsing/" alt="Johan Samsing receives the prestigious Einstein Fellowship" title="Johan Samsing receives the prestigious Einstein Fellowship"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/namely_names/2014/johan-samsing-receives-the-prestigious-einstein-fellowship/samsing55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/johan-samsing/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratulations_teddy/ On 28 February 2014, Teddy Frederiksen successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Nurseries of supernovae... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/congratulations_teddy/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/galaxy-shows-cosmic-collision/ The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. DARK researchers have detected... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/galaxy-shows-cosmic-collision/ Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/nte_is_a_go/ On Friday 14th of February 2014, The Niels Bohr Institute and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) officially... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2014/nte_is_a_go/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/universes-early-galaxies-grew-massive-through-collisions/ New research from DARK and a group of collaborators shows that massive galaxies were formed by explosive... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/universes-early-galaxies-grew-massive-through-collisions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/martina_falco/ Martina Falco successfully defended her PhD thesis "Dynamics of galaxy clusters and their outskirts:... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/martina_falco/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/monster-gamma-ray-burst-in-our-cosmic-neighbourhood_kopi/ Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For the...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/monster-gamma-ray-burst-in-our-cosmic-neighbourhood_kopi/" alt="Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood" title="Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/monster-gamma-ray-burst-in-our-cosmic-neighbourhood/swift55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/monster-gamma-ray-burst-in-our-cosmic-neighbourhood_kopi/ Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kasper_elm_heintz/ Welcome to DARK's new student helper Kasper Elm Heintz! Kasper started working at DARK on November 4th. Kasper... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kasper_elm_heintz/ Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/darach-watson-receives-lundbeck-research-prize/ Darach Watson has been awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Research Prize for Young Scientists for his outstanding... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/darach-watson-receives-lundbeck-research-prize/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:45:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/leloudas_nature/ An international team including DARK Affiliated Scientist, Giorgos Leloudas (Oskar Klein Center), studied... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/leloudas_nature/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kevin_koay/ Welcome to post doc Jun Yi (Kevin) Koay. Kevin got his PhD in 2012 in astrophysics at Curtin University... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kevin_koay/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:15:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/congratstroels/ Congratulations to Troels Paarup, who successfully defended his Master’s thesis Friday 13 September... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/congratstroels/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/anders_pinzke/ Anders Pinzke starts at DARK this week as a Swedish Research Council Fellow. Anders got his PhD in theoretical... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/anders_pinzke/ Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_per_andersen/ Welcome to DARK's new PhD student, Per Andersen! Per will start at DARK September 2nd 2013, and he will... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_per_andersen/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:30:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/sebastianh/ DARK welcomes Sebastian Hönig, who starts at DARK on September 1st as an independent DARK Fellow. Sebastian... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/sebastianh/ Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:15:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_caroline/ Caroline Heneka starts September 1st as a PhD student working with David Rapetti. Caroline got her Master’s... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_caroline/ Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_jens/ Jens Juel Jensen starts September 1st as a PhD student working with Marianne Vestergaard. Jens got his... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_jens/ Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/per_lilje_sabbatical/ DARK welcomes Per Lilje, who will spend his 2013-14 sabbatical year at DARK. Per is Professor at the... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/per_lilje_sabbatical/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/quasar-observed-in-6-separate-light-reflections/ Using a special method where you observe light that has been bent by gravity on its way through the universe,...<div class="item-image"><a href="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/quasar-observed-in-6-separate-light-reflections/" alt="Quasar observed in 6 separate light reflections" title="Quasar observed in 6 separate light reflections"><img src="https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/quasar-observed-in-6-separate-light-reflections/kvasar55x55.jpg/" border="0" alt="" /></a></div> https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/quasar-observed-in-6-separate-light-reflections/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:30:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/nature_short-duration_grbs/ DARK's Professor Jens Hjorth is among researchers publishing this week in Nature.  They present... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/nature_short-duration_grbs/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/camilla_h_pearson/ Welcome to DARK's new student assistant, Camilla Holbæk Pearson! Camilla will be working in the... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/camilla_h_pearson/ Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/new-knowledge-about-early-galaxies/ Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope,... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/new-knowledge-about-early-galaxies/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/simone_juul_jakobsen/ Congratulations to DARK's Master's student, Simone Juul Jakobsen, who succesfully defended her thesis... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/simone_juul_jakobsen/ Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:45:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/gender_eu_research_project/ Social scientist Beate Sløk- Andersen is visiting DARK for the month of June to prepare a research... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/gender_eu_research_project/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/daniel_lawther/ Congratulations to DARK's master's student, Daniel Lawther, who successfully defended his master's thesis... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/daniel_lawther/ Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_jonatan/ Jonatan Selsing starts this week as a 4+4 PhD student working with Lise Christensen. Jonatan has just... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/welcome_jonatan/ Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/distant_supernova/ The Hubble Space Telescope has broken the record in the quest to find the furthest supernova of the type... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/distant_supernova/ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0200 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/w49b_paper/ Using data from Chandra, Spitzer and VLA, a group of scientists led by Laura Lopez (MIT) and including... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/w49b_paper/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/moire_prescott/ Welcome to new postdoctoral DARK Fellow, Moire Prescott, who starts her position 1 February 2013. Moire... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/moire_prescott/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0100 https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kristian_finlator/ Welcome to new postdoctoral DARK Fellow, Kristian Finlator, who starts his position at DARK February... https://nbi.ku.dk/english/research/astrophysics/dark/news/2013/kristian_finlator/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:45:00 +0100