Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

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Media captionKatie Bouman designed an algorithm that made the image possible
A 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole. The black hole image, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a network of eight linked telescopes – was rendered by Dr Bouman’s algorithm. “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,” MIT’s Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab wrote.

Source: www.bbc.com