Orbiting the supermassive black hole in our Milky Way (VR movie)
Watch this video on YouTube Credits: J. Davelaar, M. Moscibrodzka, T. Bronzwaer & H. Falcke Radboud University Nijmegen
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Jordy Davelaar is one of the Faces of Science
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected twelve new PhD students to be the national Faces of Science. One of them is Jordy Davelaar – an aspiring postgraduate within the BlackHoleCam project at the Radboud University Nijmegen. During the time of his PhD, Jordy will share what it is like to […]
Heino Falcke’s and Remo Tilanus’ visit to Grenoble and NOEMA in February 2018
Heino Falcke and Remo Tilanus flew to France in February to meet with Director Karl Schuster and scientific and operational staff members of IRAM. In addition to collaboration and technical discussions a visit to NOEMA was also part of the agenda. Headquartered in Grenoble, IRAM is an international research institute for radio astronomy that operates […]
Seeing a Black Hole Through Stephen Hawking’s Eyes
Years after the theoretical physicist upended our understanding of black holes, scientists are close to photographing one for the first time. TheAtlantic – Mar 14, 2018 By Marina Koren For a few nights in April last year, astronomers linked up eight radio telescopes in the United States, Chile, Spain, Mexico, and Antarctica for a little photo […]
Department of Astrophysics,
IMAPP, Radboud University,
P.O. Box 9010,
6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP),
Goethe University,
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1,
Frankfurt, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR),
Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121
Bonn, Germany
Other Partnerships
-Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
-European Research Council (ERC)
-Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
-European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)
-Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Garching)
-Observatoire de Paris
-Event Horizon Telescope
-European Research Council (ERC)
-Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
-European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)
-Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Garching)
-Observatoire de Paris
-Event Horizon Telescope