The Research Cluster “ELEMENTS: Exploring the Universe from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales” brings together world-leading scientists from distinct fields of research – the physics of particles and nuclei, the gravitational physics of neutron stars, and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements – to combine the microscopical scales of elementary particles with the macroscopical scales of astrophysical objects. The ultimate goal is to address the question of the origin of the heavy chemical elements, such as gold and platinum, in our universe.
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- First image of Black Hole Sgr A* revealed
It is hard to miss these days when every news website and newspaper (not to mention Twitter) is giving it the attention it deserves: The first image of… - Successful conference brings theorists and experimentalists together
Last week, the members of ELEMENTS came together for their first Annual Conference at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies and Giersch Science Center. After opening words from… - Girls’ Day offers exciting insights into ELEMENTS topics
On 28 April 2022 the nationwide “Girls’ Day” – an event for female students to discover professions and subjects where the proportion of women is less than 40… - Improved accessibility of our website
As of this week, we are collaborating with “paged.” to make our website accessible to an audience with visual impairments. By clicking on the black icon depicting a… - At the centre of our Milky Way – Talk by Reinhard Genzel
Nobel laureate Prof. Reinhard Genzel will give a talk to the public on May 4th, 2022, giving insights into the formation of Black Holes and revealing new findings… - First annual conference of ELEMENTS to take place
For one year, more than 80 scientists in the collaborative Research Cluster ELEMENTS have been exploring the structure and composition of matter by combining the microscopical scales of…