Webpages tagged with «Dark Matter»

 A field of galaxies in space, dominated by an enormous, bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long spikes around them.
Published Feb. 24, 2026 5:09 PM

Each spring, near the date of Svein Rosseland's birthday, the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics invites everyone to a guest lecture as a remembrance for the great astrophysicist Svein Rosseland (1894-1985), founder of our institute.

image collage of galaxies, stellar clusters
Published June 5, 2024 2:35 PM

Astronomers are buzzing with excitement as the Euclid Consortium shares a first look at the cosmos through the eyes of the groundbreaking Euclid telescope. The release of the first scientific publications is a milestone for the entire astrophysical community.

Portrait photo of a young, smiling woman
Published Nov. 24, 2023 10:00 AM

Doctoral candidate Renate Mauland-Hus at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Large-scale structure with massive neutrinos and modified gravity: A simulation-based approach" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

dark web and black filaments
Published Mar. 29, 2022 9:15 PM

Three teams of scientists from Norway, Czech Republic and Iceland join expertises in the attempt to shed light onto the nature of the most abundant ingredient in the Universe: dark matter.