"There is a beginning and an end to our world"

German astronomer Heino Falcke spearheaded one of the most ambitious scientific adventures in history: taking the first image of a black hole, an international project that required coordinating eight powerful telescopes around the world, from Mexico to the South Pole, and one European funding of 14 million euros.

Falcke lived the observations in Spain, at the Pico Veleta radio telescope, at an altitude of 2,900 meters in Sierra Ne ...

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