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Lars Kann-Rasmussen with Jose M. Ezquiaga, 2026

Feb. 26, 2026, 6:19 p.m.

Jose M. Ezquiaga awarded Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize 2026

Illustration for the 2026 CoG Arts and Science Residency

Feb. 26, 2026, 3 p.m.

Open Call for Arts and Science Residency at the Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein Institutes

Diagram of the static structure of a spherically symmetric black hole. Credits: Raúl Carballo-Rubio (IAA-CSIC)

Feb. 23, 2026, 12:11 p.m.

Beyond Einstein: New Equations to Build the Complete History of Black Holes

PhD posters - Juno Chun Lung Chan and Jaime Redondo-Yuste

Feb. 10, 2026, 2:49 p.m.

Juno and Jaime to Defend their PhD

The hosts of the Podcast "Ingen dumme spørgsmål" ("No Stupid Questions") on Radio IIII

Feb. 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.

Troels Harmark Discusses Time, How Everything Started and How it All Ends, in the Podcast “No Stupid Questions"

Group photo taken at the Hyperboloidal Foliations and their Applications Workshop, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna

Jan. 26, 2026, 1:39 p.m.

From Niels Bohr to Schrödinger: The Hyperboloidal Workshop Strikes Back in Vienna

Photo of Licia Verde

Jan. 15, 2026, 3:19 p.m.

Prof. Licia Verde Inaugurates the CoG Colloquia Series with “A Tale of Many H₀”

Yifan Chen in his office at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Jan. 10, 2026, 10:43 a.m.

New Faculty Position for Yifan

Vitor Cardoso performing Galileo’s falling bodies experiment with a group of children.

Dec. 20, 2025, 11:37 a.m.

A Christmas Tale of Gravity

Screenshot of The Center of Gravity website at Fonts In Use

Dec. 17, 2025, 12:26 p.m.

CoG’s Website Featured in Prestigious Typographic Design Publication

Vitor Cardoso at the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Dec. 17, 2025, 12:01 p.m.

Vitor Cardoso is a Bearden Distinguished Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University

Lucia and Leart in front of Técnico's central main building, in Lisbon.

Dec. 17, 2025, 9:40 a.m.

Probing Black Holes: Center of Gravity Students Present New Results in Lisbon

Resonance by Dimitris Theocharis

Dec. 3, 2025, 9:07 p.m.

Residency Artist Dimitris Theocharis Wins Inspire Prize 2025

Sala dei Notari - The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity

Dec. 2, 2025, 3:59 p.m.

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity: A Journey into Black Holes

emri

Nov. 20, 2025, 4:11 a.m.

It Takes Three to Tango

Lorena Magaña Zertuche, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and Marica Minucci (from left to right).

Nov. 19, 2025, 2:15 p.m.

CoG Represented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Diversity in Physics

Participants in the KulturSalonen Viby

Nov. 19, 2025, 12:59 p.m.

Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr Discusses Black Hole Mergers and Quantum Gravity at KulturSalonen Viby

Image of a black hole in the Taratula Nebula

Nov. 18, 2025, 6:31 a.m.

New Breakthrough Reveals How Galaxies Shape Their Central Rotating Black Holes

Troels Harmark and Anna Mejlhede at the Bogforum

Nov. 17, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

Troels Harmark Discusses Time in Physics and Literature at Bogforum

Marta Cocco, Davide Panella, Jann Zosso and Elisa Grilli

Nov. 6, 2025, 4:24 p.m.

CoG at “Theoretical Tools for Gravitational Wave Physics” in Zürich

Orestad Sound and Science Festival promo image

Nov. 5, 2025, 3:44 p.m.

Troels Harmark Talks About Time at the Ørestad Sound and Science Festival

"Assim nasce uma ideia", book launch, Tècnico, October 16, 2025

Oct. 21, 2025, 4:44 p.m.

A Book Full of Ideas

The emission of a high-speed charge in a phase of lowered speed of light triggers the formation of a distinctive shock ring of strongly enhanced memory as a low frequency “echo” of the process. Image by Jann Zosso.

Oct. 21, 2025, 4:06 a.m.

Can Light Remember? Science is a Crucial Step Closer to Finding Out

Photo of CoG members at a social event

Oct. 10, 2025, 8:32 a.m.

CoG Hosts Social Event at the Cinemateket

Image illustrating gravitational waves

Oct. 9, 2025, 7:07 a.m.

Stars That Absorb Gravitational Waves

Image of two black holes merging emitting gravitational waves

Oct. 2, 2025, 7:50 a.m.

Niels Obers Discusses Einstein Telescope on Science Stories podcast

Thomas and Jaime discussing

Sept. 24, 2025, 1:43 p.m.

Positions in Gravitational Physics at CoG

Last weekend, the Theatre of Ideas at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, played host to the sold-out premiere of “A Quantum of Hope,” a physics-inspired play penned by five scientists, among them Center of Gravity student Jaime Redondo-Yuste.

Sept. 22, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

A Quantum of Hope Premiere

Simulated images of the supermassive black hole M87*: left panel shows radiation from astrophysical plasma; right panel illustrates potential emission from dark matter annihilation.

Sept. 22, 2025, 8:19 a.m.

Dark Matter Can Illuminate Black Hole Shadows

Vitor speaks at the CoG Inaguration

Sept. 12, 2025, 8 p.m.

The Center of Gravity is Now Officially Inaugurated!

Thomas Spieksma during his PhD thesis defense

Sept. 10, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

Thomas Spieksma Successfully Defends his Thesis

Marina De Amicis defends her PhD thesis

Sept. 10, 2025, 12:43 p.m.

Marina De Amicis Successfully Defends her Thesis

Center of Gravity members at an all-center group meeting

Sept. 3, 2025, 3:17 p.m.

CoG Up and Running!

Dan D'Orazio visits the Center of Gravity

Aug. 27, 2025, 12:15 p.m.

Dan D'Orazio Visits Us

Posters announcing the PhD defenses of Marina De Amicis & Thomas Spieksma

Aug. 25, 2025, 9:57 a.m.

Marina De Amicis & Thomas Spieksma to Defend Their PhD

Photo of Vitor Cardoso at the RTP Studios, in Lisbon

July 31, 2025, 2:33 p.m.

Vitor Cardoso Elected President of ISGRG

Associate Professor Jose M. Ezquiaga Receives 2025 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Early Career Prize

July 21, 2025, 10:50 a.m.

Associate Professor Jose M. Ezquiaga Receives 2025 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Early Career Prize

Image illustrating the annoucement of GW231123

July 14, 2025, 10:37 p.m.

Welcome GW231123, the Most Massive Binary Black Hole Observed Through Gravitational Waves

BBH Cloud

July 13, 2025, 6:07 p.m.

Vitor Cardoso Receives Simons Foundation Grant for Strong Gravity Research

Photo of Juno Chan at the Niels Bohr Institute

July 11, 2025, 12:23 p.m.

Come and Work with CoG

comic book characters and a black hole

July 7, 2025, 11:08 a.m.

Black holes in comic books!

Medalha_Merito_vitor

June 18, 2025, 4:32 p.m.

City Medal for Vitor Cardoso

$Illustratioon of light refracting through a dark circle$

June 2, 2025, 10:13 a.m.

All You Wanted to Know About Black Hole Spectroscopy

Unraveling the Mystery of Time: From greek philosophy to the edge of black holes and the end of the universe

May 27, 2025, 8:35 p.m.

A New Book by Troels Harmark

Illustration of a chain of resonant modes

May 7, 2025, 11:50 a.m.

Boosting High-frequency Gravitational Wave and Ultralight Dark Matter Searches

Illustration of the event horizon of a black hole, swirling gas and plasma

April 19, 2025, 2:27 p.m.

Staff Picks on Wolfram Community

Grammophone

April 15, 2025, 2:49 p.m.

Cosmic Whispers Made LOUD by Matter

Photo of Johan Samsing

April 12, 2025, 8:09 p.m.

Johan Samsing Awarded 2025 MERAC Prize for "Best Early Career Researcher"

ICTS group in India

April 6, 2025, 8:09 p.m.

Strong Field Gravity in India

Still from the video "Gravitating Gestures" by artist Sjoerd Knibbeler

March 21, 2025, 6:01 p.m.

Gravitating Gestures

Photography competition at Strong

March 21, 2025, 6 p.m.

Photography Competition at Strong

Photo of Strong students in ‘Lenshouse’

Feb. 28, 2025, 12:39 p.m.

Strong Students Write Paper in ‘Lenshouse’

Illustration of a violin underwater emitting waves

Feb. 26, 2025, 5:13 p.m.

Galaxies Do Not Affect Black Hole Spectroscopy

Thumbnail of video featuring Bill Unruh, Bob Wald and Roger Penrose.

Dec. 12, 2024, 10:52 a.m.

Physicists Talk About Physics

Photo of Vitor Cardoso at the University of Lisbon

Nov. 21, 2024, 6:14 p.m.

ULisboa Award for Vítor Cardoso

Photo of Maarten van de Meent

Nov. 5, 2024, 1 p.m.

Maarten van de Meent Awarded ERC Synergy Grant

Oct. 1, 2024, 9:30 a.m.

Center of Gravity (CoG): A New DNRF Center of Excellence

Weak Leaks of Wave Dark Matter

Sept. 19, 2024, 9:47 p.m.

Weak Leaks of Wave Dark Matter

Illustration of a black hole binary

Sept. 16, 2024, 6:20 p.m.

Black Hole Binaries May Unveil New Particles

Group photo of the conference "Black Holes Inside and Out", Copenhagen, 2024

Aug. 31, 2024, 11:33 a.m.

Black Holes Everywhere!

Illustration of the Niels Bohr Institute being swallowed by a black hole.

Aug. 14, 2024, 2:33 p.m.

#blackholeweek