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Baby galaxies grew up quickly
2012-05-16
Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from DARK. This means that already in the early history of the Universe...
Welcome to Matteo Cataneo
2012-05-02
DARK welcomes Matteo Cataneo, who starts at DARK on Wednesday 2 May 2012. He will start a position as a 3 year PhD student working with David Rapetti. Matteo obtained his master's degree from Università degli studi di Milano...
DARK welcomes the next generation
2012-04-30
On April 11th the Tiger class of 3-5 year olds from Stepping Stones international pre-school came to visit DARK and learn about the solar system.
Johan Fynbo appointed professor of astrophysics
2012-04-26
The Professorship is with special responsibilities (MSO) and is connected with Johan Fynbo’s ERC project about galaxies in the early universe.
UltraVISTA - a treasure trove of data released to the community
2012-03-21
ESO’s VISTA telescope has created the deepest wide-angle view of the sky ever made using infrared light. Data from the VISTA surveys are being processed in data centres around Europe, are flowing back into the ESO science archive, and now are available to astronomers around the world...
Fynbo recognized by the World Cultural Council
2012-03-20
Professor Johan P.U. Fynbo is being honored by the World Cultural Council as a talented researcher who has had international impact. The WCC awards take place on Wednesday, 18 April at Aarhus University, in conjunction with the Danish EU Presidency.
Researchers map dark matter in 3-D
2012-03-15
Two teams of astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to map the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 383, which is located about 2.3 billion light years from Earth.
Welcome to Claudio Grillo
2012-03-09
Welcome to Claudio Grillo, who started his DARK Fellow position 13 March 2012. Claudio's research focuses on strong gravitational lensing and observational cosmology in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. He is particularly interested in...
Chryssa Kouveliotou - 2012 Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics
2012-02-20
Congratulations to NASA Researcher (and DARK Advisory Committee member), Chryssa Kouvelioutou, who has been awarded the Heineman Prize by the American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society.
Hjorth and Toft win the Jens Martin Prize for Teaching
2012-02-02
Sune Toft and Jens Hjorth were awarded this year's Jens Martin Prize, which recognizes excellence in teaching at the Niels Bohr Institute, for their Cosmology course (astro 1) taught to bachelor's students every spring.
Anja C. Andersen named Faculty of Science Communicator of the Year
2012-01-03
DARK's Anja C. Andersen has been awarded the 2011 Science Communication Award by the University's Faculty of Science. Anja C. Andersen is an astrophysicist who studies stardust and
is also a star communicator. She is...
Welcome Søren Granat
2012-01-02
Søren Jøns son
Granat has joined the Space Science Center and DARK from the beginning of the year. Søren will
be working with communication strategies, primarily linking the Space Science
Center to Danish space companies in an effort...
Laursen and Stritzinger among top Swedish astrophysicists in 2011
2011-12-31
Congratulations to DARK affilliated scientists, Peter Laursen and Maxi Stritzinger, who were named 1st and 3rd most cited Sweden-based astrophysicists in 2011, respectively. Both are post doctoral researchers at the University of Stockholm's Oskar Klein Center.
Cosmic research picked in breakthroughs of 2011
2011-12-16
Astronomers from DARK have developed a groundbreaking method for measuring long distances in the universe using light from quasars. Physics World has chosen this research as one of the most important breakthroughs in physics in 2011
Visit by Saul Perlmutter
2011-12-07
Nobel Prize winner, Professor Saul Perlmutter, will visit DARK on Thursday, 15 December, to meet with researchers and give a Niels Bohr Lecture, at 13.15 that day. Professor Permultter leads the Supernova Project, among many other projects, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Christmas burst puzzles
2011-11-30
On 25 December 2010, NASA’s Swift satellite detected an unusually bright and long-lived gamma-ray burst. Astrophysicists from DARK and their colleagues explain the unusual phenomenon in a new paper published in Nature...
Congratulations to Mitch Campbell!
2011-11-29
Congratulations to Mitch Campbell, who successfully defended his Master's thesis Tuesday 29 November 2011! Mitch
Campbell is a Canadian graduate student at the Dark Cosmology Centre at
NBI. Trained as a physicist...
Giant star explosion casts light on distant galaxies
2011-11-02
A team of astronomers, including Marie Curie Fellow Thomas Krühler from DARK, have used light from a distant gamma-ray burst to investigate the composition of matter in distant galaxies...
Welcome Stefania Pandolfi
2011-11-01
Stefania Pandolfi starts at DARK and the Space Science Center today, as a Space Science Fellow. Stefania is currently finishing her PhD in relativistic astrophycis and astronomy at the University of Rome Sapienza, working with...
Welcome Lise Christensen
2011-11-01
Lise Christensen starts at DARK on 1 November as a Freja Fellow. Lise
received her PhD from Potsdam University in 2005, and since then has been
a post-doctoral research fellow at the European Southern Observatory in
Chile and Garching ...
Nobel Prize recognizes DARK collaborators and research aims
2011-10-06
News of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae,
is welcomed at DARK. Dark energy, which is
said to be responsible for the accelaration, is a major research theme...
'Dark energy' and 'dark matter' the focus of the Euclid space mission
2011-10-05
The future European space mission, Euclid, which the European Space Agency has just selected for launch in 2019, will have prominent Danish participation. Space Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and DTU Space have teamed up to contribute to the design of the instruments
66 new telescopes to explore first solar systems and the primordial universe
2011-09-30
How do clouds of dust and gas surrounding newly formed stars become planets? – and how far back can you trace the building blocks of life? DARK Associate Professor, Thomas Greve is among the Danish astronomers seeking answers using the new astronomical telescopes, ALMA...
Light from galaxy clusters confirm theory of relativity
2011-09-28
DARK Fellow, Radek Wojtak, and others at DARK have measured how light is affected by gravity on its way out of galaxy clusters, confirming theoretical predictions. Results are published in a new article in the journal, Nature.
Astronomers discover new way to measure Universe
2011-09-27
DARK astronomers have found a new way to measure distances. Because their new method uses quasars, some of the brightest objects known, scientists say they will be able to determine distances much further than achieved to date...
Vestergaard tenured!
2011-09-09
Congratulations to Dark Cosmology Centre Associate Professor, Marianne Vestergaard, who was awarded tenure on 1 September 2011. Marianne started at DARK in September 2009 as a Freja Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow, after more than 10 years in the USA...
PhD Admissions and Funding at DARK
2011-09-02
Are you DARK's next PhD student?
Two PhD positions are available at the Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK) with flexible start dates in the Fall 2011 through 2012...
Congratulations to Diana Juncher!
2011-08-31
Congratulations to Diana Juncher, who successfully defended her Master's
thesis Wednesday 31 August 2011. Diana has been working with Steen
Hansen for the last year on a project entitled " Searching for Attractors in Clusters of Galaxies". You can download ...
Welcome to Johannes F. Zabl
2011-08-29
Welcome to DARK's newest PhD student, Johannes F. Zabl, who started at
DARK 1 August 2011. Johannes will be working with Johan Fynbo and
Kristian Pedersen on the UltraVISTA survey and science with the Euclid
space mission. Johannes Zabl’s...
August is International at DARK
2011-08-02
DARK's researchers welcome more than 80 guests and collaborators during the month of August, for several workshops and collaborative meetings. Some of the visitors come regularly, like former DARK post docs, Páll
Jakobsson...
Johan Fynbo receives €1M from EU-fund
2011-06-21
Astrophysicist Johan Fynbo, Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute has been awarded a 5 year grant from the European Research Council, ERC, to research galaxies in the early universe. The funding body supports talented young researchers with project proposals for groundbreaking and cutting edge research.
Extreme gamma radiation from black hole in a distant galaxy
2011-06-17
The extreme gamma radiation is most likely due to a star that has been swallowed up by a super massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The gamma radiation was observed with the Swift satellite by an international team of researchers...
Unique galaxy found
2011-06-14
A unique example of some of the lowest surface brightness galaxies in the universe have been found by a team lead by DARK researchers, including Lars Mattsson. The discovery was made in collaboration with astronomers at Uppsala University and the Astronomical Observatory in Kiev.
Welcome to Thomas Krühler!!
2011-06-08
Welcome to Thomas Krühler, who started at DARK 1 June 2011!! Thomas is a
new Marie Curie Fellow coming most recently from MPE Garching, working
on GRB afterglows. You can contact Thomas here: tom @ dark-cosmology.dk Welcome, Thomas!
Welcome to Kristen Jones!
2011-06-06
Welcome to Kristen Jones, who started as a visiting PhD student
researcher at DARK today! Kristen's research interests are radio
astronomy, radio instrumentation, cosmology, galaxy evolution and
quasars. Kristen will be working with Thomas Greve...
Earliest gamma-ray burst discovered
2011-05-29
Astronomers at DARK have contributed to the discovery of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that occurred only about 500 million years after the Big Bang. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serve as a unique tool to study the first galaxies...
Congratulations to Karen Pardos Olsen
2011-05-09
Congratulations to Karen Pardos Olsen who has accepted a 4+4 PhD
position at Dark Cosmology Centre. She will be working with Sune Toft
and Thomas Greve on massive galaxies at redshift 2. Karen received her
Bachelor degree...
Congratulations to Tayyaba Zafar!
2011-04-14
Congratulations to Tayyaba Zafar who defended her PhD thesis Thursday 14
April 2011! Tayyaba has been working as a PhD student at DARK for the
last 3 years with Darach Watson as her supervisor. Tayyaba will soon be starting a postdoc position...
New discovery sheds light on the early Universe
2011-04-12
Brahe Fellow Johan Richard and collaborators have published new results: "The galaxy we have discovered began to form stars a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. This is much earlier than previously thought and may change the theories about...
Congratulations Thøger!
2011-04-04
Thøger Juul Thorsen succesfully defended his
Master's thesis Monday 4 April 2011. Thøger has been working on his
thesis: Probing early galaxy formation with Damped Lyman α-Absorbers at
DARK for the last year ...
Supernova - GRB connection observed
2011-03-09
Gamma Ray Bursts have now been observed in direct connection with an exploding giant star - a supernova. Researchers at DARK are among those who have studied the rare event. The results have been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal...
Congratulations to Desiree D. M. Ferreira
2011-03-04
Congratulations to Desiree D. M. Ferreira who succesffully defended her PhD thesis on Friday! Desiree has been working as a PhD student at DARK for the last three years, with supervisor Kristian Pedersen. Desiree also did her Master's at DARK...
Congratulations to Catarina Fernandes!
2011-02-17
Catarin
a Fernandes defended her Master's thesis successfully Thursday 17
February after working 1 year with DARK's associate professor, Steen
Hansen. Catarina will start a 9 month position as a research assistant...
Congratulations to Martina Zamboni
2011-01-31
Congratulations to Martina Zamboni, who successfully defended her Master's thesis Monday 31 January 2011! Martina has been working with Steen H. Hansen for the last year on the project "The Shape of Galaxy Clusters". The rest of this year...
New DARK post doc on team that discovers Earth-sized exoplanet
2011-01-11
Lars Buchhave, Carlsberg Fellow at the Dark Cosmology Centre, is among the group of astronomers who have confirmed the existence of an Earth-sized exoplanet outside of our solar system. A solid planet approximately 1½ times the size of ...
Space Science Center receives 4.7 million kroner from the Research Council
2011-01-03
The Space Science Center at the University of Copenhagen has received a grant of 4.7 million kroner from the Research Council. The Center is comprised of 10 research groups at several institutes and they all ...