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First image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

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Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.

12/05/2022

GRAPPA Postdoctoral Fellows: Lionel London and Oscar Macias

01/03/2021
X-ray & radio image of Sagittarius A East

Rare Blast’s Remains Discovered in Milky Way Center

10/02/2021

Opening of GRAPPA Postdoctoral Fellowship!

14/12/2020

The Dutch Black Hole Consortium receives €4.9 million in funding

12/12/2020

Sera Markoff receives Diversity Initiative Award

04/12/2020

Dark matter even more elusive than previously thought

18/09/2020
The Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, one of the places where the search for relic neutrinos will be performed. Drone image made by Auke Pieter Colijn.

NWA-ORC for neutrino observations

12/07/2020
Lofar

LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters

05/03/2020

Top prize in high-energy awarded to Event Horizon Telescope

31/01/2020
Archived News (pre-2019)
  • Samaya Nissanke elected GRAPPA spokesperson
  • Gianfranco Bertone appointed founding director of EuCAPT
  • Kenny Ng to join GRAPPA on a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
  • Mass or interaction, but not both
  • A new era in the quest for dark matter
  • Another blow for the dark matter interpretation of the Galactic Center Excess
  • Bachelor workshop results in publication on neutrino decay
  • Welcome, Samaya Nissanke!
  • TeVPA 2018

Highlights

GRAPPA physicists Gianfranco Bertone and Samaya Nissanke receive NWO ENW-M2 grant for their research project "Searching for dark matter with gravitational waves"

16/03/2023

Green light for Dutch LISA-contribution

20/02/2023
ERC synergy grant awardees including GRAPPA faculty Sera markoff.

Astronomers receive ERC Synergy Grant to make colour movies of black holes and build new telescope in Africa

14/12/2022

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  • Multimessenger Physics
  • Dark Universe
  • The Early Universe
  • Gravitational Waves and Strong Gravity

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  • Experimental gamma-ray astronomy and high-energy astrophysics
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