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Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute played an important role in the study that may lead us to revise our theories about these violent events.

These galaxies seem to be so massive that they challenge our understanding of how structure forms in the Universe.

When was Greenland actually green? And how does the Universe make gold, platinum and uranium? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just received 11.4 million euro to answer these big questions. The…

While developing and testing astronomical software on existing data, a master student in astronomy fortuitously discovered a group of galaxies in the very early Universe.

Using the Very Large Telescope and the radio telescope ALMA in Chile, a team of astronomers including researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute has discovered a swarm of galaxies orbiting the surroundings of a…

New results from the red and rocky surface of Mars have shown that MOXIE, an oxygen generator that Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and fellow institutions have been deeply involved with, has passed…

This new method uses a much more direct and precise calculation, it doesn’t rely on a whole set of parameters to be fed into the computer, and it can even calculate the uncertainties and the accuracy.

How this unique combination of a binary set of stars and a revolving bigger star can form, is now the focus in a collaboration between two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute.

Utilizing multiple radio telescopes across the world, a team of astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center, have discovered several galaxies in the early Universe that, due to massive amounts of dust, were hidden from our…

Astronomers estimate that there should be 100 million black holes roaming among the 100 billion stars in our galaxy. They are the remnants of supernova explosions that happened throughout the 10 billion years of the…

While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so…

A team of University of Copenhagen astrophysicists has arrived at a major result regarding star populations beyond the Milky Way. The result could change our understanding of a wide range of astronomical phenomena,…

Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the…

Congratulations to Lise Bech Christensen, who has just been awarded a “Research Project 1” grant of almost DKK 2,900,000, or roughly €390,000.

Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The international research team is led by astronomers from the University of…

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and DTU discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe. This is the…

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now…

In the center of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. Some of these are actively feeding on the gas and dust around them, expelling excess energy as powerful jets that are seen as quasars across the entire…