# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heino-falcke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:43:44.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heino-falcke"
name: "Heino Falcke"
slug: "heino-falcke"
description: "Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'. In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels."
tagline: "German astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heino_Falcke_-_Buch_Wien_2025.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.662799129804206
  historical:           8.139458666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "hfalcke"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hfalcke/"
    handle:    "hfalcke"
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    handle:    "heinofalcke"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    title: "Хайно Фальке"
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    title: "هينو فالك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Heino Falcke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Falcke_(Astronom)"
    title: "Heino Falcke (Astronom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Falcke"
    title: "Heino Falcke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Falcke"
    title: "Heino Falcke"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Falcke_(astrophysicien)"
    title: "Heino Falcke (astrophysicien)"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Falcke"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump