09/16/2026 For the eighth time, the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS is conferring the ORIGINS PhD Awards. The awards recognise two outstanding dissertations from the Cluster’s research areas. Interdisciplinary work that connects several ORIGINS research areas is particularly welcome. The application deadline is 30 November 2026.
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09/07/2026 eROSITA has discovered a population of black holes with extreme mass. In a 140-square-degree region of the sky, an international research team – including several ORIGINS researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) – has identified eight active black holes whose masses account for at least five percent of the total stellar mass of their host galaxies. In the nearby universe, this proportion is typically around half a percent. The observation challenges the widespread notion that black holes and galaxies are always closely coupled and grow…
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