Meet Katie Bouman, the scientist whose algorithm helped image the first black hole

There were over 200 researchers behind the historic first photograph of a black hole’s event horizon released this week. 3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. More info: https://t.co/WITAL1omGl 2016 story: https://t.co/QV7Zf2snEP#EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope pic.twitter.com/u6FBswmGDZ — MIT CSAIL April 10, 2019 Not only is she a millennial STEM heroine, but she’s also the brilliant scientist who, with the help of her team, wrote the algorithm and did what many thought was an impossible feat: photographing a black hole. Bouman’s algorithm was at the heart of coordinating eight telescopes scattered across five continents and aiming them at two black holes scientists are particularly eager to study. Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.