News from DAWN
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Hubble finds distant galaxies that ran out of fuel
Using the HST, the ALMA radio telescope, and gravitational lensing, astronomers from DAWN have found six galaxies in the early Universe that died by running out of gas. Exactly how they ran out is a bit of a mystery.
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Astronomers see the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth to appear in 16 years
Gravitational lensing has allowed the light from a distant supernova to reach us four times; three in 2016 and — we predict — a fourth time in the year 2037.
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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” — intense millisecond pulses of radio waves that are yet unexplained.
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DAWN student Albert Sneppen solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes
In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them. This phenomenon may enable us to see multiple versions of the same thing.
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