A new prototype detector called CODEX-beta has now recorded its first data at CERN. It is designed to test a different way of searching for hidden particles: looking for signs of new physics that could travel some distance from an LHC collision before decaying in a quiet, shielded space nearby.

An international team, including researchers from the University of Hamburg Observatory, has discovered 31 of the oldest quasars ever found using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Two of these massive galactic nuclei now break the record for the earliest quasars ever observed in cosmic history and offer...

On July 17 and 18, the University of Hamburg Observatory invites you to the fourth annual Sternstunden Festival in Bergedorf. In a summery festival atmosphere, visitors can enjoy more than 30 concerts, as well as scientific lectures, stargazing, and scientific experiments.

At CERN, millions of particle collisions occur every second—far too many to store them all. A clever filtering system therefore decides in real time which data are worth keeping. Researchers from the University of Hamburg in the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have now integrated artificial intelligence directly into...

Dr. Dimitra Spathara, a materials scientist specializing in computational thermodynamics and advanced alloy design, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will carry out her project, called PureCuAlloys, within the research group of Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Nikolopoulos within the Cluster of...

Krisztian Peters has now secured the exceptionally high sum of 3.4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a new detector within the project SONAR ("Superconducting Oscillator for Novel Astrophysical Radiation"), whose core components are two such cavities.

Paula Pilatus has been a PhD student at Quantum Universe since October 2022 and conducts research at the intersection of mathematics and physics. Her background is a perfect fit: with a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics and a master’s degree in mathematical and theoretical physics from Munich, she is ideally...

Mahtab was captured by the scientific atmosphere at DESY through the DESY Summer Student Program, which she attended remotely from Iran. Inspired by the scientific environment and research opportunities in Hamburg, she later joined the group of Kostas Nikolopoulos at the University of Hamburg as a PhD researcher. As part of...

For the past few years, Wendy has used Machine Learning to study neutron stars. After a year as a research assistant at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, she is moving to Hamburg to use her experience in machine learning to understand more about the structures connecting galaxies, called cosmic filaments.