• NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
  • Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Black Hole shadow in M87
  • The neutrino event IceCube 170922A appears to have originated in an interaction of jetted material. © IceCube Collaboration, MOJAVE, S. Britzen, & M. Zajaček

 

 

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Silke Britzen

Staff scientist 

Very Long Baseline Interferometry VLBI Group

Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie

Bonn, Germany

NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO / AUI / NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)
NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO / AUI / NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

Active supermassive Black Holes and their jets - that's my field of research in Astronomy. In particular, I am searching for pairs of supermassive black holes that might merge in the future and emit gravitational waves.

 

With the help of Very Long Baseline Interferometry I am studying active Black Holes (e.g., M87) and their stories.

  • I am teaching at the University of Heidelberg. The subject is "Black Holes and the Challenges of Modern Astrophysics". Please find the current dates here.

My homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

Britzen - Lübeck
Britzen - Lübeck

In case there is a bit of time and space without science, I like to paint with lots of colour.

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