Professor Dr. Karl Martin Menten
03 October 1957 — 30 December 2024
On December 30, 2024, Professor Dr. Karl Martin Menten,
Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, died at the age of 67.
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From the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the KM3NeT neutrino telescope to detect a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 ...
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87*). This study marks a significant step towards multi-year analysis ...
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Using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, a team of astronomers including Gerd Weigelt form MPIfR (Bonn, Germany) has disentangled the sources of infrared radiation near the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy NGC 1068. They ...
Das European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) ist eine weitreichende Kollaboration, an der Astronomen und Experten für Gravitationswellen aus mehr als zehn Institutionen in ganz Europa beteiligt sind, darunter das MPIfR in Bonn. Es sammelt und analysiert ...