How did black holes form and how did they shape the universe? How did large structures form from regular matter as we see it today? These questions are among the most important of modern astrophysics and the European Space Agency’s next big mission could provide the answers we seek. FAU is one of th...
What lies behind dark matter, black holes and exploding stars? Where can they be found and how did they form? Together with colleagues from all over the world, Dr. Alexander Kappes, researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), wants to get closer to solving the big mysterie...
Researchers at FAU have for the first time experimentally confirmed a new theory that describes the movement of long-chain molecules in their liquid melt. The theory says that these melts are not only as viscous as honey on the molecular scale, but that they also have elastic properties similar to a...
Physicists at FAU have proved experimentally that light pulses can accelerate each other permanently. This would allow for a controlled shift of the wavelength of light pulses, which could be interesting for many disciplines such as laser physics and spectroscopy. The scientists recently published t...
Ana Smith, professor for Theoretical Physics at FAU, is to receive one of the most coveted prizes for young researchers for her research into cell membranes: an ERC Starting Grant. The Croatian-born scientist will thus have 1.5 million euros at her disposal with which to advance her research: in her...
What happens when two stars that were previously orbiting each other collide? How can such a huge explosion leave more than gas and radiation behind – and in fact even leave both partners intact, albeit in a different form? A team of astronomers1) from Great Britain, Germany and Spain is now hoping ...
Physicists from FAU and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in an unusual experiment: they were able to prove that magnetism – commonly expressed in the force between two magnetised objects – also functions within an individual molecule. This discovery, which is of great impor...
Those who enter the archive of the Astronomical Institute of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) can see a little chapter of the history of the universe with their own eyes. At the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg, 40,000 photographic plates are safely stored in steel cabin...
For the first time ever, physicists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in proving that an optical system can be ‘invisible’ from one side and act like a mirror from the other side. The study has recently been published in the renowned journal ‘Nature’.
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FAU scientists make substantial contribution to installation and data analysis
With the H.E.S.S. II telescope in Namibia the largest Cherenkov telescope ever has now started operation. Physicists from the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) and the Physics Institute at FAU were part of...
