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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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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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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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Congratulations to Johan Fynbo, who has received a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, to look for quasars in a new, unbiased way.
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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, DAWNers and collaborators found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when the Universe was only 7% of its present age. Assisted by the “gravitational lens effect”, the team was able to explore for the first time the nature of small and dark “normal galaxies” in the early Universe, representative of the main population of the first galaxies.
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When the James Webb Space Telescope, despite repeated delays, finally launches in October, and after some initial calibrations begins its first cycle of observations, these will include an impressive Danish participation. The primary focus will be on learning more about the Universe’s earliest galaxies.
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Congratulations to Charlotte Mason and Georgios Magdis on receiving the VILLUM Young Investigator and Young Investigator Plus grants, respectively. Charlotte, who has just joined DAWN as an associate professor, will […]
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Image credit: Seiji Fujimoto. Massive matter – such as clusters of galaxies – distort and magnify light from distant galaxies behind them through gravitational lensing. This can make faint galaxies […]
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Artist’s illustration of a galaxy having its gas “ripped out” by a collision. Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to […]
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