Hamburg Observatory

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

An international team of researchers with the participation of the Hamburg Observatory of the Universität Hamburg has mapped nine gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters. It is the first time that collisions of such distant clusters have been studied. The researchers publish their findings in the journal “Nature Astronomy”.

An international team, under the lead of Giannandrea Ichingolo from the University of Bologna has won the NRAO’s image contest. The team, that also included members from the University of Hamburg, submitted an astonishing contribution that combined radio observations and cosmological simulations to display the origin of...