This grad student was behind the black hole image
The image of the black hole which was unveiled by an international team of 200 researchers on Wednesday, has been doing rounds on the Internet. But not many know that the effort would have impossible without Kate Bouman, who developed a crucial algorithm that helped devise imaging methods.According to CNN, three years ago, Bouman led the creation of an algorithm that eventually helped capture this first-of-its-kind image: a supermassive black hole and its shadow at the centre of a galaxy known as M87. Читать дальше...