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Willkommen am Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (ZAH)


This years' Astrophysical Software Award of the German Astronomical Society (AG) goes to Cornelis P. Dullemond (ZAH/ITA) for his radiative transfer software RADMC-3D. (2026/07/10)

Prof. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed Chair of the Observation Science Board of one of the projects shaping the future of gravitational-wave astronomy. (2026/06/08)

Heidelberg Astrophysicist Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) helps decode a new Black-Hole enigma in a new catalog of gravitational wave events. (2026/05/26)

A new study involving Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) and collaborators suggests that the biggest black holes form through violent merging events in densely populated star clusters. (2026/05/08)

In a new study Zofia Kaczmarek (ZAH/ARI) and colleagues show how the Roman Space Telescope will enable the discovery of quiescent neutron stars. (2026/05/07)

Heidelberg astronomers help uncover how dense stellar building blocks form in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (2026/04/26)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

Summer Term 26 ►►►►



Next Astro colloquia
Aug 21
11:00
Bridging the Divide: Studying the Resolved and Integrated Light of Nearby Galaxies in High Resolution
Ben Gibson (STScI)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
MPIA lecture hall,
Sep 18
11:00
TBA
Maria Bergemann (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Oct 02
11:00
TBD
Duncan Christie (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Recent ZAH publications
8/2026
Chan, Julian; Gualandris, Alessia et al. (u.a. Dehnen, Walter)
Perturber-driven dynamics of supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy mergers
MNRAS 550, g1374(2026)

8/2026
Jones, David; Reindl, Nicole et al.
Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. VI. Hot, Compact Stars
ApJS 285, 49(2026)

7/2026
Antonini, Fabio; Romero-Shaw, Isobel M. et al. (u.a. Mapelli, Michela)
Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars
NatAs 10, 1049(2026)


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