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How we photographed the first image of a black hole ❚  All products were chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more. How we photographed the first image of a black hole May 19, 2021 at 9:25 am In April 2019, astronomers announced to the world that they had done the unthinkable: they had managed to photograph – for the very first time – a black hole. The black hole in question is about 6.5 million times the mass of the Sun an...

Date Time Connecting smallest and largest scales Cosmic particle accelerators like blazars (artist’s impression) are typical objects for multi-messenger astronomy (Image credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab) Established in 2019 with its central hub at CERN, the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT) aims to bring together the European community of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists to tackle some of the greatest mysteries in science. There are strong hints that explanations for dark matter and dark energy, the origin of high-energy cosmic ray...

University of Amsterdam Dr Jason Hessels has been appointed professor of Observational High-Energy Astrophysics, in particular Radio Astronomy at the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Jason Hessels (Photo: ASTRON) Hessels’ research focuses on using large radio telescopes to explore the astrophysics of some of the most energetic objects and phenomena in the Universe. Astronomical observations conducted using radio waves and radio telescopes (Radio Astronomy) play a critical role in the study of transient astrophysical phenomena (short-lived and often extremely energeti...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. view more  Credit: Modification of work by CXC/MPE/V. Springel The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern Physics at the same time: the problema of Charge and Parity in the strong interaction, and the mystery of dark matter. However, in spite of the high scientific interest in finding it, the search at high radio frequen...

German astrophysicist Heino Falcke led one of the most ambitious scientific endeavours in history: producing the first image of a black hole. This required the simultaneous use of eight of Earth’s most powerful telescopes from Mexico to Spain to the South Pole, and €14 million in European funding. The image took two years to render under the weight of data to be processed. Falcke oversaw proceedings from the Pico Veleta telescope in the southern Spanish mountain range of Sierra Nevada in April 2017. There, he and his colleagues spent long nights snacking on “an enormous leg of ...