Bouman's face as the black hole image came up on her screen, Image: Rónán Duffy Bouman's face as the black hole image came up on her screen, Image: Rónán Duffy WHEN THE WORLD was getting to see the first ever image of a black hole, Katie Bouman could hardly believe that her work had led to such an incomparable achievement.
Bouman is a former PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her work involved helping computers see through images and video. The data was gathered two years ago, over four days when weather conditions in the eight worldwide locations were just right. Then yesterday, as that work was finally coming to fruition, Bouman posted to Facebook about how she felt.
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It's a little bit surprised how close the real Blackhole is compared to science fiction. It shows more and more about the genius of Einstein.