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Heino Falcke | |
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Born | Cologne, Germany | 26 September 1966
Occupation(s) | professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics |
Awards | Spinoza Prize (2011) Henry Draper Medal (2021) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cologne, University of Bonn (MSc, PhD, Dr. habil.) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Radboud University Nijmegen |
Website | www |
Heino Falcke (Cologne, 26 September 1966) is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).[1] His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'.[2] In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels.[3]
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