Two supermassive black holes were discovered 9 billion light-years away, at the heart of the galaxy. The objects appear to be orbiting around each other every two years as if caught in a cosmic dance. Their spiral movement disturbs the fabric of space and time, sending out gravitational waves and decreasing the distance between the objects. In merely ten thousand years, the collision is expected to shake time and space. An international team of…

…s to research into the world’s reflection in the mirror. In his work, the chemist specialises in the nuclear magnetic resonance of chiral molecules. His project has been awarded nearly €1.5 million.   2021: four grants The 2021 edition of ERC Starting Grants has already distinguished four winners from the University of Warsaw. The other ERC Grant laureates are: Dr. Paweł Nowakowski, the UW Faculty of History, Dr. Dorota Skowron, the Astr…

…icular group of organisms, the more precise estimation of the species number. “Approximately 2 mln species have been described so far. However, it is expected there are as many as ten times more at least, reaching up to 20 mln species we have not identified yet. Some scientists consider the number of 100 mln species to be discovered and described. This number includes about 400,000 vascular plants. In 2020, according to scientists from the Royal…

…strument doctrine. Influence of the Vienna Circle on the application of law in Europe”; 12.30 – Opening Ceremony “The Vienna Circle. Exact Thinking in Demented Times”. The exhibition is organised within the CENTRAL Network (Central European Network for Teaching and Research in Academic Liaison), which includes five Central European universities: the University of Warsaw, Humboldt University (Berlin), the University of Vienna, Charles University (…

…aks than ZTF.   The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters: “Impact of the SpaceX Starlink Satellites on the Zwicky Transient Facility Survey Observations”, Przemysław Mróz, Angel Otarola, Thomas A. Prince, Richard Dekany, Dmitry A. Duev, Matthew J. Graham, Steven L. Groom, Frank J. Masci, Michael S. Medford, 2022, Astrophysical Journal Letters, https://doi.org…

…concentrates on the Milky Way galaxy, stellar populations, variable stars and exoplanets. She has presented numerous research papers that are published in ”Nature” and ”Nature Astronomy”. In 2019, with the OGLE team, she presented a unique three-dimensional map of the Milky Way and had their work results published in ”Science”. In 2020, for her outstanding achievements in Polish Natural Sciences, she was honoured with Prof. Stefan Pienkowski Awa…

…as Prof. Tomza describes his colleagues. Researcher profle   Assoc. Prof. Michał Tomza, PhD, from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, is a theoretical physicist and chemist. He specialises in quantum physics of matter and light-matter interactions. He was awarded the National Science Centre Award 2020 for this theoretical description of interactions between ultracold atoms, ions and molecules. He uses theoretical methods, and also…

…C Advanced Grant “The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity”. Dr Nowakowski was also the PI of a project financed from an NCN Preludium grant (2013–2015), and since 2020 had been the PI of a team project „Epigraphy and Identity in the Early Byzantine Middle East” funded by an NCN Sonata grant (2020–2023). He was awarded with the scholarship “Start 2013” of the Foundation for Polish Science, the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Educati…

…sics and Assoc. Prof. Michał Tomza from the Faculty of Physics.   Among 4,000 applications for ERC Starting Grants, there are 397 projects that have won the total funding of € 619 mln. The winners represent research organisations from 22 countries.   Five out of 14 applications submitted from the University of Warsaw as their host institution were successfully assessed by international peer reviewers. Three projects from the University…

…nt past. These discussions produced an idea of creating a museum in Soba, which would display both ancient (archaeological) and modern (traditional) crafts and objects of everyday use.   With the beginning of 2022, the research team is continuing their archaeological and ethnological works in Soba.   The project ”Soba – the heart of the kingdom of Alwa. The spatial organization of medieval capital city on the Blue Nile” is carried out b…