Heino Falcke  Heino Falcke (born 1966) is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes. In 2013, a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant from the European Research Council to further studies of black holes. Falcke was born in Cologne, Germany in 1966. He studied physics at the universities of Cologne and Bonn and graduated in 1992. He obtained a doctorate summa cum laude in 1994 from the University of Bonn. Falcke subsequently worked as a scientist for the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, the University of Maryland, and the University of Arizona. Falcke won the Ludwig Biermann Award for young astronomers of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft in 2000. In 2003, he became adjunct professor of Radio Astronomy and Astroparticle physics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He also started working for ASTRON, the radio astronomy institute of the Netherlands. In 2007, he became a full professor at Nijmegen. In 2006, Falcke won the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Falcke received an Advanced Research Grant of the European Research Council of 3.5 million euro in 2008. In 2011, he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant. The organization presenting the award, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, praised Falcke for providing new insights regarding black holes. They also called him one of the leading forces behind the radio telescope LOFAR. Falcke worked on the design of the telescope. In 2013, Falcke, as lead scientist of a team, received a European Research Council Synergy grant of 14 million euros. The grant was intended for further studies of black holes, specifically Sagittarius A*. The goal was to construct a Black Hole Camera with the grant. This would allow testing of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity by creating an image of the event horizon. This project culminated into the Event Horizon Telescope project; within this project, Falcke is the chair of the EHT Science Council. On 10 April 2019, he announced that the project managed to create an image of the black holes at the centre of the Milky Way (Sagitarius A*) and M87.