Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

This year's Physics Project Days takes place from September 10 to 13 at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The four-day event is aimed specifically at female students from Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony. Around 50 students work in small groups on 15 different experiments and research projects supervised by...

Hadrons are particles made of quarks and gluons, and hundreds of them are produced in each particle collision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A team of international scientists at the CMS experiment led by Quantum Universe key researcher Andreas Hinzmann has now successfully extracted the mass of the W boson using...

With great sadness we have learned of the passing of our highly esteemed emeritus professor, Prof. Dr. Herwig Schopper. He passed away on August 19, 2025, at the age of 101 in Hamburg.
Herwig Schopper, born on February 24, 1924, in Landskron (Czechoslovakia), was an outstanding figure in German and international physics.
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This July, the Hamburg International Summer School “Particles, Strings and Cosmology” brought 27 students from 11 different countries to Hamburg. In two weeks’ time, they had the opportunity to get to know the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe and the Campus Bahrenfeld.

In a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have investigated a cloud of dust and gas near the black hole at the center of our galaxy. X7, as this astronomical object is called, has significantly changed its shape over the past twenty years...

The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is changing faster than any other research center in Hamburg. On occasion, we ask University of Hamburg members to introduce their workplace in existing or planned Science City research buildings and tell us what makes their building special. Today: the Center for Hybrid Nanostructures...

It’s not just sunshine that comes from our nearest star — according to new research by IFIC, DESY and the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg, the Sun also emits ultra-weak gravitational waves over an enormous frequency range. These gentle ripples in space and time could one day shed new...

A search for axion dark matter, this ambitious endeavor was successfully taken by the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment" (SPACE) research group of Mehmet Agit, Akgümüs And Nabil Salama at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Hamburg. After more than one year of research and development...

In the Shielded Experimental Hall (SHELL) at the University of Hamburg, an international research collaboration involving the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe is developing the MADMAX experiment to detect axions. The particles are considered promising candidates for dark matter and could solve a mystery surrounding...