Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

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Studierende und Nachwuchsforschende erzählen jeden zweiten Mittwoch während der Vorlesungszeit, warum sie sich für die Astrophysik entschieden haben.

For groundbreaking work on the origin of structure in the universe, Rafael Porto, Lead Scientist at DESY and Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe, has been awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize 2020 together with his colleague and co-author Daniel Green from the University of California at...

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert aus dem Fachbereich Mathematik und Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger aus dem Fachbereich Physik wurden durch einen interdisziplinären Ausschuss für das Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm ausgewählt. Damit werden gleich zwei Wissenschaftler der MIN-Fakultät als sogenannte Humboldt-Scouts...

The Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics honors the outstanding research of Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel on black holes. Black holes are considered to be one of the major predictions of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity from 1915. The proof of their existence and the study of their characteristics has...

Frank Tackmann, researcher in DESY’s theory group and at the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe, has won one of the prestigious "ERC Consolidator Grants" handed out by the European Research Council (ERC) every year. Tackmann will set up a team of theorists to make precise predictions of a certain kind of collision at...