Heino Falcke

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2021 - Henry Draper Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences for their vision and their leadership within the EHT collaboration, embracing theory, instrumentation, observation and analysis in combining radio telescopes around the world to image the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the nearby galaxy M87, thereby validating Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
• 2014 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
• 2011 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council

Overview

Best Publications

• LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

  M. P. van Haarlem;M. W. Wise;M. W. Wise;A. W. Gunst;George Heald

  3669
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  3175
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  2457
  Citations

• LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

  M. P. van Haarlem;M. W. Wise;A. W. Gunst;G. Heald

  2447
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  1246
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  1204
  Citations

• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects.

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta

  1160
  Citations

• Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10(19) eV

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  1116
  Citations

• Viewing the Shadow of the Black Hole at the Galactic Center.

  Heino Falcke;Fulvio Melia;Eric Agol

  1105
  Citations

• A Scheme to Unify Low-Power Accreting Black Holes - Jet-Dominated Accretion Flows and the Radio/X-Ray Correlation

  Heino Falcke;Elmar Koerding;Sera Markoff

  1068
  Citations

• A scheme to unify low-power accreting black holes Jet-dominated accretion flows and the radio/X-ray correlation

  H.D.E. Falcke;H.D.E. Falcke;H.D.E. Falcke;E.G. Körding;S. Markoff

  903
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  864
  Citations

• First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration

  Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  864
  Citations

• The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  860
  Citations

• Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10(18) eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  846
  Citations

• Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10(18) eV

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;D. Allard

  808
  Citations

• The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  637
  Citations

• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  626
  Citations

• A Jet model for the broadband spectrum of XTE J1118+480: Synchrotron emission from radio to x-rays in the low/hard spectral state

  Sera Markoff;Heino Falcke;Robert P. Fender

  620
  Citations

• The shadow of the black hole at the galactic center

  Heino Falcke;Fulvio Melia;Eric Agol

  10
  Citations