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Francesca Rizzo is awarded the Otto Hahn Medal
Congratulations to Francesca Rizzo, who has just been awarded the Max Society’s “Otto Hahn Medal” for her original and groundbreaking work into the kinematic and dynamical properties of high-redshift galaxies.
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Francesco Valentino appointed the “Best young Italian Researcher in Denmark”
Assistant professor Francesco Valentino has been awarded the “B.I.R.D.” prize in the class of Physical and Engineering sciences in 2022 for his research on the early formation and evolution of the first quiescent galaxies in the Universe.
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Black holes helped quenching star formation in the early Universe
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 distant and faint that they evade being observed. But looking at the combined light from thousands of galaxies, a team of astronomers including the University of Copenhagen showed that black holes helped turn off star formation.
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Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather
Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development. Now a Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute used a mathematical approach —inspired by research in the Universe’s light — to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.
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