After an international group of scientists revealed the first ever photos of a black hole on Wednesday, the Internet quickly turned its attention to the 29-year-old computer scientist who played a key role.
Black holes are areas so massive they warp space and time so much that even light cannot escape. As such they aren't visible directly, but are surrounded by dust and gas swirling around it at velocities near the speed of light, which causes the detectable emission of radiation. The boundary of a black hole is called an event horizon.
"Bouman prepared a large database of synthetic astronomical images and the measurements they would yield at different telescopes, given random fluctuations in atmospheric noise, thermal noise from the telescopes themselves, and other types of noise.
The attention on Bouman may give a skewed impression of the number of women involved in the EHT project. Feryal Ozel, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona who was the modeling and analysis lead on the project, told ABC News the gender breakdown was "pretty dismal," noting that there were about three senior women, including herself, out of about 200 total scientists on the project.
"I've been a lot of projects where it's better. We are trying to change that," she said. "We are trying to bring in graduate students and postdocs and a younger generation that is excited to work on this. Hopefully that's changing the face of the collaboration a little bit. But we still have work to do."
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