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Katie Bouman, the MIT grad who made first-ever photograph of black hole possible


April 12, 2019

BRUSSELS: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) post-doctoral student Katie Bouman, who isn’t an astronomer, amazingly played a vital role in taking the first-ever photograph of a black hole. That historic first photo  of a black hole was released to the public on Wednesday after years of work on an international project called Event Horizon Telescope. Katie Bouman, a computer scientist, …

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