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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…

KVANT article - Formation of heavy elements in kilonovas

Jonathan Selsing (Postdoc, DAWN) presents the discoveries following last years observation of a…

The Big Bang – an eyewitness account

What did the Big Bang actually look like? Join astrophysicist Peter Laursen and his travel companio…

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…

Opening of new Center:

The official opening of DAWN

The official opening of the new basic research center of excellence 'Cosmic Dawn Center' (DAWN)…

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…

Ruari Mackenzie visit

Postgraduate Ruari Mackenzie from the Department of Physics, Durham University visits Dawn on Frida…

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…