PROF. DR. HEINO FALCKE was born in 1966 in Cologne, Germany, is a highly decorated astrophysicist at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2011 he received the Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands' highest scientific award, and in 2021 he won the Henry Draper Medal. Both awards were for his idea of capturing an image of the black hole. This breakthrough was achieved by the international Event Horizon Telescope project, in which he held a leading role.JORG ROMER was born in 1974, studied Mesoamerican studies, prehistory and ancient history, and Latin American studies in Hamburg, Germany, and is a science editor at Der Spiegel magazine.
Heino Falcke's book shows us how much stamina, curiosity, and
fascination are required to persevere with a great scientific
project against all naysayers
*Berliner Zeitung*
The technological and logistical challenges that the scientists
engaged in the endeavour to produce an image of a black hole were
faced with, and how they finally succeeded in the Spring of 2017 -
all of this Falcke, with the help of journalist Jörg Römer, has
turned into a wonderful book.
*Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*
Light in the Darkness succeeds in making the invisible visible and
the unimaginable imaginable
*Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger*
Falcke asks that we take seriously what black holes have to tell us
and that we accept the limits of our knowledge. You don't see it
very often that a scientist shows such modesty at the moment of his
greatest triumph. One of the many strengths of this book
*Neue Zürcher Zeitung*
Heino Falcke's very personal book provides surprisingly revealing
insights into the life of a researcher. It introduces the reader to
the early history of astronomy and its modern foundation and does
so in an accessible way
*Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag*
Heino Falcke does ground-breaking research into the universe's most
mysterious phenomenon and at the very edge of space and time
*From the statement of the jury for the Spinoza Prize*
For me, Heino Falcke is the Man of the Year 2019, and the image of
the black hole in the M87 galaxy that he and his team produced
immediately became iconic. But Falcke isn't only a fantastic
scientist, but also a gifted storyteller
*New Scientist (Dutch edition)*
Whoever reads Falcke's book won't just dive into a breathtaking
scientific story but will also be in awe of the man himself. In
spite - or maybe precisely because? - of his rigorous scientific
work, this practicing Christian and minister keeps a room for god
in his heart
*Neue Ruhr Zeitung*
Falcke and Römer pull off the trick of combining an individual and
a cosmic perspective in the most illuminating and entertaining
fashion
*Der Freitag*
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