Meet the 29-year-old woman behind the first-ever black hole image via CNBCMakeIt
The world was mesmerized this week by the first-ever image of a black hole, captured by a network of eight linked telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
A photo of Bouman bracing herself for the groundbreaking release has been widely shared on social media. While there, she was responsible for leading the project, with assistance from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory.
Following the release of the image, Bouman has received international plaudit for her years-long work — including from celebrities and politicians. Bouman, who is now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, was keen to point out the shared input of her colleagues.The efforts to capture the image involved a team of more than 200 scientists in locations across the globe. Bouman's was one of a number of algorithms used to piece together the images captured by the network of telescopes.
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