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

Innovative art and science project “Interference”

Innovative art and science project “Interference” by DARK researcher Jo Verwohlt Damm and sound and installation artist Signe Heinfelt receives a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for science communication using…

Carlsberg foundation awards record grants for Danish basic research

Marianne Vestergaard, professor and vice-head of DARK, receives a Carlsberg grant to support her team's research on supermassive black holes.

Professor Jens Hjorth joins the board of directors of the Carlsberg foundation

On 1 January 2022, a new member will join the Board of Directors of the Carlsberg Foundation. Professor Jens Hjorth from the University of Copenhagen has been appointed for a term expiring at the end of 2026. He will be…

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…