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The ALICE detector at CERN (credit: Julien Ordan/CERN)

Researchers create a Little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the Universe’s first moments

Center for Active Living Matter — Information, Vitality, and Emergence, an international six-year research centre funded with 75 million DKK.

Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme:

Niels Bohr Institute Wins Flagship European Grant for the Physics of Living Matter

Showing programme for Black hole week august 22 - 29

The Round Tower, Kongens Nytorv, Comic Garden, Koncertkirken, DR Koncerthuset, Planetarium, Gloria Biograf

A Week to Celebrate Black Holes with the Center of Gravity at:

Hubble Space Telescope image showing the globular cluster stellar stream. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope and Holm et al. (2026).

Breakthrough in unusual galaxy may help unravel the mystery of dark matter

Physics at the University of Copenhagen

At the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, we research and teach within a broad spectrum of physics areas: Quantum computers and quantum communication, astrophysics, particle physics, computational physics, solid state physics, climate and geophysics and biophysics.

Research facilities

With us, you get access to a wide range of advanced equipment in bio- and quantum technology, supercomputers, workshops in both electronics and mechanics as well as special laboratory facilities that are necessary to support the research process. Our astrophysicists have observation time on the largest telescopes, e.g. James Webb Space Telescope.

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the origin of everything

Researchers create a Little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the Universe’s first moments

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in recreating the primordial matter…

Breakthrough in unusual galaxy may help unravel the mystery of dark matter

For the first time, researchers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream in a galaxy beyon…

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ERC Grants for three NBI researchers

No less than three ERC Starting Grants for NBI.

Niels Bohr Institute Wins Flagship European Grant for the Physics of Living Matter

International research team, led by Amin Doostmohammadi at NBI, awarded the first European edition…

Global Neutrino Network Dissertation Prize goes to Tetiana Kozynets, former Ph.D. at NBI.

Tetiana Kozynets, former PhD student at the Niels Bohr Institute, awarded the 2025 Global Neutrino…

Jens Martin Knudsen Award:

Markus Ahlers receives the Jens Martin Knudsen Award 2024

At the Niels Bohr Institute kickoff on 12 March 2026, the award for Teacher of the Year at the Niel…

Niels Bohr Lectures

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