Meet Katie Bouman, the STEM hero behind today’s black hole photo

The Next Web
By Bryan ClarkApr 10, 2019, 11:32 pm316 pts
Astronomers today published the first ever images of a celestial phenomenon we’ve long known to exist, but were unable to capture: a black hole. And it’s thanks, in large part, to the algorithms created by Katie Bouman. Bouman, a graduate student at Harvard, worked with a team of three fellow researchers to…

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