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Andreas Burkert President of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
Professor Andreas Burkert, vice-speaker of the Excellence Cluster ‘Universe’, was elected President of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) at their ...
Andrzej Buras honored with membership of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Andrzej Buras, professor of theoretical elementary particle physics at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and founding member of the Excellence ...
ESA gives the go-ahead for the Euclid Mission
On the same day the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of „Dark Energy“, ESA approved a satellite mission which in intends to delve ...
The Neutrino Riddle: Identical Particle and Anti-Particle?
Neutrinos are elusive particles: It took many years to detect them. Decades passed until scientists could prove that they actually have mass. ...
Cosmic Crashes Forging Gold
The cosmic site where the heaviest chemical elements such as lead or gold are formed is likely to be identified: Ejected matter from neutron stars ...
Neutrinos: Ghostly Particles with Unstable Egos
Half a century after their discovery neutrinos are still the source of many riddles. The question as to which rules the mysterious particles follow ...
What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole?
A new astronomical study has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge black holes in the centres of galaxies in the past 11 billion years were not ...
