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Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star
29 May 2018
Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have recently provided the scientific community with a much-needed computer model.
Ruari Mackenzie visit
05 February 2018
Postgraduate Ruari Mackenzie from the Department of Physics, Durham University visits Dawn on Friday 9th.
Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe
26 January 2018
The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.
Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe
25 January 2018
From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.
Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson
27 November 2017
Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd student
Anja C. Andersen has been awarded the Danish Authors' Society Literary Prize 2017
17 November 2017
The prize has previously been awarded, among others, to Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Tor Nørretranders, Jørn Lund, Peter Øvig Knudsen, Jens Andersen, Ulrik Langen and Søren Ryge. This year, the prize is shared between Anja C. Andersen and Henrik Wivel.
New discovery: Supernova explodes several times
08 November 2017
Astronomers have for the first time discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years. These observations are challenging existing theories on cosmic catastrophes.
Neutron star smash shakes universe
17 October 2017
Scientists have, for the first time, captured gravitational waves as well as light, from two neutron stars that orbited each other ever closer to eventually collide. The groundbreaking discovery begins a...
Now we know where the heavy elements come from
16 October 2017
The discovery of a kilonova produced by the collision of two neutron stars brings researchers a big step closer to the explanation of one of the great puzzles of science: how the heaviest elements in the universe were formed.
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space
03 October 2017
Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including researchers from NBI, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.
