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Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the…

Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes…

New analysis leads to a fundamentally different view of supermassive black holes

In the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these are actively feeding o…

A novel way of investigating star-forming gas in the early Universe

Combining observations of exploding stars and observations of galaxies, astronomers at the Cosmic…

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously…

Reported record-distant explosion turns out to be probably just a piece of space junk

A perspective into how science sometimes operates: Even with the most careful measures taken to…

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…

Kasper Heintz is awarded 180 hours at the Very Large Telescope to study fast radio bursts

In an exceptionally large program, postdoc and DAWN affiliate Kasper Heintz will now have the…

Johan Fynbo receives DFF grant

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just awarded 191 grants for new research projects,…