Niels Bohr Institute

News on Astrophysics

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…

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…

The Star That Would Not Die:

New discovery: Supernova explodes several times

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of…

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES:

Neutron star smash shakes universe

Scientists have, for the first time, captured gravitational waves as well as light, from two neutro…

NEUTRON STAR MERGER:

Now we can find out where the heavy elements come from

The discovery of a kilonova produced by the collision of two neutron stars brings researchers a big…

Building block of life in Space:

ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space

Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including…

Star formation:

Star formation influenced by local environmental conditions

Three scientists at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, have carried out extensiv…