After a bachelor’s degree in Cuba, a postgraduate diploma in Italy, Adriel moves to Germany to the Hamburger Sternwarte to pursue a PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosswog. He feels excited to be working at a higher level than before and looks forward to his research on the unknown physics in the mergers of neutron...

1/137 — this simple yet significant number has both fascinated and frustrated generations of physicists. Robi Banerjee, Professor at the Observatory and the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Universe” at the University of Hamburg, is investigating the origin of the fine-structure constant.

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...