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Andrzej Buras is New Member of the BAdW
The Excellence Cluster Universe is happy to announce that Professor Andrzej J. Buras is one of the 12 new members of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW). Andrzej Buras belongs to the world’s leading researchers in the field ...
Dr. Claudio Grillo becomes new Research Fellow at the Cluster
On 1 March 2010 the astrophysicist Dr. Claudio Grillo joined the Excellence Cluster Universe as a Research Fellow. He will be part of Research Area E, which studies the dark components of the Universe. For the last one and a half years, ...
Strings und Schwarze Löcher: Lüscher-Seminar für Lehrer 2010
Thema der diesjährigen Lüscher-Lehrerfortbildung vom 19.-21. März 2010 in Zwiesel ist die Astro- und Teilchenphysik. Für die inhaltliche Gestaltung des Seminars zeichnet in diesem Jahr der Exzellenzcluster Universe verantwortlich. In ihren ...
Higher Star Formation Rate in Young Galaxies
Stars form from giant gas clouds in galaxies – the star formation rate however has changed over cosmic timescales. In the young universe many more stars were born. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, ...
Black Holes and their Galaxies: News from a Cosmic Neighbourhood
Among astronomers it is considered certain that huge Black Holes of millions of solar masses reside in the centre of practically every galaxy. It is still unclear however as to what extent the chronological development of the galaxies and ...