This picture shows Dr. Katie Bouman's glee as she saw the first image of a black hole rendered. She, more than anyone else, is responsible for it. As a grad student in 2016, Bouman gave a TED Talk about the possibility of photographing a black hole. She created the algorithm that enabled a network of eight telescopes to work together to take the image.
She started making the algorithm three years ago while she was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
There, she led the project, assisted by a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory.
What's next for Bouman? She has a job lined up at the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. Read more about Bouman at BBC News. -via The Daily Dot
(Image: Katie Bouman)