News 2020

Studying how galaxies evolve takes more than just observing them and noting their properties. A notable part of an astronomer's job is about constructing physical models that explain the observed behavior. Read here how…

Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers who studied distant galaxies with the Atacama Large…

Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other, researchers have measured the expansion rate of the Universe (the Hubble constant).

An international team, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, has for the first time demonstrated that most of their brightness comes from shockwaves created in a unique and a previously unknown…

The Cosmic DAWN Center at the Niels Bohr Institute is pleased to wish the Hubble Space Telescope a happy birthday celebrating 30 years in orbit!

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, have discovered the queen of all supernovas. A stellar explosion twice as bright as any run-of-the-mill supernova. An unprecedented observation, according to…

Former Niels Bohr Institute student, Sarah Pearson, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called Hubble Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually by NASA…

Sandra Raimundo from the DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship. She will be spending two years of the grant period at the…

The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang…