Heino Falcke dives deep into the wondrous world of black holes and explains how he – together with his colleagues of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration – managed to take the first official image of a black hole. As a camera, they used eight radio telescopes spread around the world. How does this telescope as large as the Earth work? And what does the first real image of a black hole teach us about the physics at the mysterious event horizon? What are the next steps after this discovery?
Prof. dr. Heino Falcke is a professor in Astrophysics (Radboud University) and chair of the Science Council of the Event Horizon Telescope.
Moderator: prof. dr. Jennifer Herek, dean of TNW (UT)
Wednesday 27 November, 12.30-14.00 hours
Vrijhof/Amphitheater
In cooperation with Arago