In 2016, Katie Bouman, a then-Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented a TEDx Talk on how to take a picture of a black hole, outlining a method that uses complex algorithms to accurately reconstruct images from far, far away. Now, three years later, mankind has its first-ever image of a black hole, thanks to those same algorithms developed by Bouman and her team.
The image, released yesterday by the Event Horizon Telescope project, provides the "first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow." It's an image years in the making — one that required a global network of eight telescopes and an international team of over 200 astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers.
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