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First galaxies:

Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies, linking dark matter to galaxy formation

An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN has discovered a…

Greenland Telescope to image black holes by moving onto the Greenland ice sheet

Scientists from DARK at the Niels Bohr Institute will soon be able to participate in the “Event…

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives…

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves…

Gamma-ray bursts

Catching a glimpse of the gamma-ray burst engine

A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be “one of the closets GRBs ever…

The Buffalo project:

Hubble searches for the origin of the first galaxies

How did the first galaxies come to be? The Buffalo project, a new Hubble Frontier Fields Program to…

Neutronstar collision:

New observations link gigantic star collisions to homeless short duration gamma ray bursts

Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have been involved in detecting…

New computer model:

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute…

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at…

Neutrino research:

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team…