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21 August 2025|MIN-en

Summer brings international students to Quantum Universe

This July, the Hamburg International Summer School “Particles, Strings and Cosmology” brought 27 students from 11 different countries to Hamburg. In two weeks’ time, they had the opportunity to get to know the University of Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe and the Campus Bahrenfeld.

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Photo: Wasif Shaqil

20 August 2025|Publication

A mysterious cloud near the Milky Way's black hole is being torn apart

In a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have investigated a cloud of dust and gas near the black hole at the center of our galaxy. X7, as this astronomical object is called, has significantly changed its shape over the past twenty years...

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Aufnahme der Sonne

Photo: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB)

6 August 2025|Research

Gravitational waves from the Sun

It’s not just sunshine that comes from our nearest star — according to new research by IFIC, DESY and the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg, the Sun also emits ultra-weak gravitational waves over an enormous frequency range. These gentle ripples in space and time could one day shed new...

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Photo: Eike Schulz, Pedram Mehrabi mit ChatGTP

30 July 2025|Research

Tracking enzymes in action: new 5D crystallography method captures protein dynamics at physiological temperatures

A research team from Hamburg has developed a novel method that allows for time-resolved structural studies of proteins across a wide temperature range. The team reports the new approach, called 5D serial synchrotron crystallography (5D-SSX), in Nature Communications. It enables the collection of temperature-resolved...

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Scientific illustration of the atto-clock

Photo: M. Ilchen with material from [ https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.011001 and https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03858] and pixabay.com

17 July 2025|MIN-en

Attosecond project receives around 1.4 million Euros in funding from the BMBF

A consortium of researchers from the University of Hamburg, and DESY together with the European XFEL and the Technical University of Dortmund have received around 1.4 million Euros funding from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The research project “AttoSee” will focus on bringing attosecond time resolution...

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15 July 2025|MIN-en

Ceremonial presentation of the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025

Prof. Teresa Pellegrino and Dr. Zala Lenarčič were awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025 for their outstanding research work at a ceremony hosted by the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter”. Both expressed their gratitude for the recognition of their achievements and emphasized how honored they felt...

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