DARK – University of Copenhagen

Niels Bohr Institute

Gamma Ray Bursts

Research in Gamma Ray Bursts

High Engergy Astrophysics

Research in High Energy Astrophysics

Dark Matter

Research in Dark Matter

Black Holes

Research in Black Holes

Galaxies

Research in Galaxies

Neutrinos

Research in Neutrinos

Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK) is an astrophysics research centre of excellence at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on the ‘dark Universe’: what is dark matter and dark energy, when did stars and black holes form, and what is the role of cosmic dust.

Research at Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Research at DARK

Teaching at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Teaching at DARK

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News

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 Dawn Center have found a novel way to estimate the amount of the otherwise invisible, cold gas in some of the first…

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 invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

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 ensure the validity of a scientific result, every so often some results are bound to turn out to be mistaken or inaccurate.…

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among others, have peered back 10-12 billion years into the universe and found six galaxies that mysteriously ran out of gas…

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 galaxies is deflected and brought to us from multiple directions. This effect has enabled astronomers from the…

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 opportunity to study the host galaxies of the so-called "fast radio bursts".

Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes

Space is so warped around black holes that even light rays curve around them. However, this has not been given mathematical expression before now, when Albert Sneppen, student at the Niels Bohr Institute, made the…