Join us online for super/science episode 11: Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us with Heino Falcke
Award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke is a key leader of the greatest scientific achievements of all time—capturing the first image of a black hole with the coordination of telescopes and scientists around the world. Prior to this, black holes existed in the popular imagination merely as a distant concept, but Falcke’s vision has now allowed everyone to witness these celestial wonders. His new book LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: Black Holes, The Universe, and Us chronicles the journey of this monumental achievement, exploring both the scientific and symbolic significance of black holes, as well as the human quest toward the frontiers of science and beyond.
Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is winner of the 2021 Henry Draper medal from the US National Academy of Science and of the 2.5M€ Spinoza Prize, the highest science award of the Netherlands. He was co-founder and chair of the science council of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration and leads one of the international team involved in the project. He was knighted by the Dutch king in 2014, and in 2019 the International Astronomical Union, IAU, named asteroid 12654 (Heinofalcke) after him.