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"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…

New DNRF Center of Excellence

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link…

Black holes and gravitational waves:

Black Hole Week at NBI

This August we are celebrating black holes in Copenhagen! There are many reasons to be excited. We…

"Bohr Fencing Club" Takes the Gold

Three physics students from NBI, Sejr S. Bergman, Ivan Kanev and Peter E. Rischel, succeeded in…

Professor Charles Steinhardt of DARK is currently hosting a summer student program

DARK Summer Student Program

Join us in welcoming a diverse group of bright young minds to our summer student program, led by…

The first galaxies:

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…

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…

First results from ESA’s space telescope Euclid

Today, the first scientific studies using data from ESA’s latest space telescope, Euclid, have been…

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars…

Sarah Pearson receives an ERC starting grant

NBI Assistant Professor has been awarded an ERC starting Grant from the European Commission.

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