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News on Astrophysics

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among…

Astronomers spot the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth sighting in 16 years

The enormous gravitation of a cluster of galaxies warps space to the extent that light from distant…

Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes

Space is so warped around black holes that even light rays curve around them. However, this has not…

The early Universe:

ALMA Discovers Rotating Infant Galaxy with Help of Natural Cosmic Telescope

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center at…

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE:

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr…

New study shows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe

Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark…

Marslanding 18. februar 2021:

Danmark lander på Mars

Forskere og studerende fra bl.a. Niels Bohr Institutet var ligesom resten af science-teamet med på…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are amon…

The Solar System follows the Galactic standard – but it is a Rare Breed

It turns out that our own solar system in some ways is very rare, and in others very ordinary. It i…

Galaxies in the Very Early Universe were Surprisingly Mature

Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This…