News
-
Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles 30 April 2024After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky...
-
The mysteries of exoplanets and supermassive black holes: two Vici grants for Leiden Observatory 07 March 2024One unravels the origin of the largest black holes in the universe, the other investigates the influence of stellar wind on the atmosphere of exoplane...
-
FLAMINGO: dark matter, ordinary matter, and neutrinos in the biggest cosmological simulation ever 24 October 2023Not only dark matter, but also ordinary matter and dark energy are tracked in the largest ever cosmological computer simulation ever. In the FLAMINGO ...
-
Uncovering galaxy evolution and the nature of dark matter 10 August 2023Dark matter represents around eighty per cent of the total mass in the Universe. Yet, we still don't really know what it's made of. Astronomer Pavel M...
-
What tiny isotopes reveal about planets outside our solar system 01 June 2023Planets existing in other solar systems contain invaluable information about the origin of planets and life. PhD candidate Yapeng Zhang has studied th...
-
How the speed demons of the universe tell us something about the Milky Way 10 March 2023They hurtle along at over a thousand kilometres per second: the fastest stars in the Milky Way. PhD candidate Fraser Evans conducted research into the...
-
Mesmerising images from James Webb space telescope 13 July 2022The 'deepest and sharpest' image of the Universe to date: the first photos from the new James Webb space telescope yesterday mesmerised astronomers an...
-
Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen 17 June 2022With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
-
First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy 12 May 2022Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A...
-
Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds 09 April 2021Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interste...
-
Many planetary systems prematurely evaporate into thin air 26 March 2021When stars are born, large clouds of gas and dust form that are known as circumstellar discs. Research by PhD candidate Francisca Concha-Ramírez shows...
-
Astronomers map the cosmic spider web 18 March 2021An international team of astronomers from Leiden Observatory and others, has for the first time mapped a piece of the dark, cosmic web. The research s...
-
Astronomers finally measure polarised light from exoplanet 12 January 2021An international team led by Leiden astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly c...
-
4.9 milion euros for unraveling the mysteries of black holes 25 November 2020The Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives 4.9 million euros from NWO for unravelling the mysteries of black holes and other mysteries of the universe....
-
Massive Stars Are Factories for Ingredients to Life 13 October 2020NASA’s telescope SOFIA has provided a new glimpse of the chemistry in the inner region surrounding massive young stars where future planets could begi...