Here is a selection of some recent media and press.

Podcasts:

• Interstellar, an episode of the series Net Echt (University of Amsterdam) from Aron de Jong about the scientific accuracy of popular movies (2024)
• Astronomer without a telescope, an episode for the series The cosmos of Anton Pannekoek (NRC) from Edda Heinsman about the famous Dutch astronomer Anton Pannekoek (2022)
• The astronomers, the ninja and the unreachable radio telescope, an episode for the series Bijvangst (BNN/Vara) from Sophie Frankenmolen about serendipity in science (2021)

YouTube:

• YouTube shorts: Extreme physics in space (2025)
• YouTube shorts: What is a black hole? (2024)
• Viva Fysica lecture The Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way (2021)
  

Press releases:

• ESA: Jet ejects away from neutron star at one-third the speed of light (2024)
• ESO: Astronomers discover a new kind of stellar explosion, micronovae (2022)
• NOVA: The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is unpredictable (2022)
• NRAO: Powerful jet coming from wrong kind of neutron star (2018)
• ESA: Mind the gap, Rapid burster behavior explained (2017)

Media coverage:

• Netherlands Space Office news item on the retirement of the space mission Integral (2025)
• New Scientist article Neutron star shoots away a jet at one third of the speed of light (2024)
• Nu.nl coverage A cosmic speed camera measures the speed of a neutron star jet for the first time (2024)
• Universe Today and UvA news items Cosmic fireworks from a neutron star (2023)
• Kijk article about the discovery of Micronovae (2022)
• New Scientist article The Milky Way’s black hole flickers irregularly (2022)
• NY Post and Daily Mail news items A powerful warm wind blown by a cosmic cookie monster (2022)
• New Scientist article A rare cosmic hyperburst seen for the first and possibly last time (2022)
• AAS research highlight Jet-setting in the infrared (2020)
• Science magazine article Black hole in our Milky Way is brighter and more active than ever (2019)

Interviews:

• Radio interview for Vroeg (Radio 1) about science in popular movies (2024)
• Newspaper interview for de Volkskrant about the discovery of a new type of mini-explosion on stars (2022)
• Newspaper interview for de Volkskrant about the discovery of a wondering black hole (2022)
• Newspaper interview for het Parool about Thirty years of Hubble Space Telescope (2020)
• Radio interview for Met het oog op morgen (Radio 1) about the discovery of an impossible black hole (2019)
• Newsletter interview for JINA-CEE, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics – Center Interview for the Evolution of the Elements (2019)

Public events:

• Public lecture at the Opening of the Academic Year of the University of Amsterdam (2024)
• Opening lecture for the show Destination Cosmos at Fabrique du Lumieres Amsterdam (2023)
• Music & lecture tour Sounds of Interstellar Space with jazz ensemble TRIFID (2019-2020)

Some fun older stuff:

• AAS press conference Black holes (2014)
• BBC interview Black hole’s ‘big meal’ could spark fireworks (2014)
• HEASARC picture of the week Swift action at the Galactic center (2014)
• Sky & Telescope article A cosmic sleigh of hand (2013)
• German radio interview Snacks for the big black hole (2012)
• Nu.nl coverage Astromers see neutron star heat up and cool down (2011)