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Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2024/01/08)

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (25/01/07)

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding the best refereed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI) are among the awardees. (2024/11/30)

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at ZAH/ARI, received the Hengstberger Award 2024. The award will support Dr. Wylezalek in organising a scientific symposium at the IWH in 2025. (2024/10/19)

The Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW) mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare, who died on July 24, 2024 at the age of 92. (2024/07/25)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM
Astro & Physics Talks
Next Astro colloquia
Feb 14
11:00
(Satellite) Galaxies and the Multiphase Cosmic Baryon Cycle in Cosmological Simulations
Eric Rohr (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Feb 21
11:00
TBD
Myriam Benisty (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Feb 28
11:00
TBD
Mark McCaughrean (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent ZAH publications
2/2025
Jeon, Junehyoung; Bromm, Volker et al. (inc. Liu, Boyuan)
Physical Pathways for JWST-observed Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
ApJ 979, 127(2025)

2/2025
Turner, J. D.; Stappers, B. W. et al. (inc. Berezina, M.)
Discovery of 26 new Galactic radio transients by MeerTRAP
MNRAS 537, 1070(2025)

2/2025
Bian, Yuan; Du, Min et al. (inc. Nelson, Dylan)
Two Channels of Metal-rich Compact Stellar System Formation: Starbursts under High Ram Pressure versus Tidal Stripping
ApJ 979, L33(2025)