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2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to ROGER PENROSE “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. REINHARD GENZEL and ANDREA GHEZ “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

The ZAH congratulates the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics!

Covid-19 related situation at ZAH

Operations at ZAH premises are currently restricted. Buildings are closed for the public. Please contact individuals via Phone or Email listed HERE or get in contact with our Central Institute Management. For university related news see HERE. (2020/10/06)

Saskia Hekker new professor in Theoretical Astrophysics

Prof. Hekker is leader of the new research group “Theory and Observations of Stars” at HITS and new member of the ZAH directorate. She is expert on studying the internal structure of stars by methods of asteroseismology. (2020/09/01)

Dominika Wylezalek obtains Emmy Noether Research Group

A new Emmy Noether Research Group at ZAH/ARI has started working on understanding how galaxies form and evolve and is led by Dr Dominika Wylezalek. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has allocated 1.6 mill. Euros over six years. (2020/09/01)

WARPFIELD-EMP: predicting line emission from HII regions in dense molecular clouds

The new simulation code developed by Eric Pellegrini (ZAH/ITA) and colleagues self-consistently predicts the emission received from gas and molecular clouds engulfing star clusters. (2020/07/30)

Anastasia Fialkov (IoA/UK) guest professor at ZAH

Dr Anastasia Fialkov from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (UK) receives a guest professorship as part of the Excellence Strategy of Heidelberg University. Dr Fialkov is an expert in 21cm cosmology and reionisation. (2020/07/24)

Cosmic Waves

Interconnected Gas Flows Show how Star-Forming Gas Accumulates in Galaxies. (2020/07/06)

Super simulations help determine the mass of neutrinos

A team of researchers led by high-energy astrophysicist Felix Spanier (ZAH/ITA) receives 35 million hours of CPU computing time on SuperMUC-NG to improve neutrino mass measurements at KATRIN. (2020/06/20)

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Astro & Physics talks

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Colloquia at ZAH
Oct 30
15:00		TBA
Anders Jidesjö & Svein Sjøberg (TBA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Via zoom link. Please contact organisers if you need the zoom information.,
Nov 05
11:15		A Light in the Dark - Massive Star Birth Through Cosmic Time
Jonathan Tan (Chalmers Uni & University of Virginia)
ARI Institute Kolloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1, 1.OG
Nov 06
15:00		TBD
Maryam Modjaz (NYU)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

more colloquia ...

Recent publications
9/2020
Sun, Jiayi; Leroy, Adam K. et al. (inc. Kreckel, Kathryn; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kim, Jenny J.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Chevance, Mélanie; Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik)
Molecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population
ApJ 901, L8(2020)

9/2020
Radovich, Mario; Tortora, Crescenzo et al. (inc. Maturi, Matteo)
AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: galaxy population properties and their redshift dependence
MNRAS 498, 4303(2020)

10/2020
Schiavi, Riccardo; Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto et al. (inc. Arca-Sedda, Manuel)
Future merger of the Milky Way with the Andromeda galaxy and the fate of their supermassive black holes
A&A 642, A30(2020)

more publications ...