This girl was the one who used the 'capture' algorithm to capture the first black hole in history

Recently, astronomers have achieved a surprising scientific self that was the first to capture a black hole, located in the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) located 55 million light-years from Earth. And the beautiful girl below is one of the key factors that has contributed greatly to 'shooting' - developing this algorithm for reconstructing this black hole and is the head of the image verification team.

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This girl is Katie Bouman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On the social network spreading the picture Katie Bouman was sitting next to the 8 stacks of data stacks of black holes. This photo reminds many people of another woman, software author Margaret Hamilton (Apollo Guidance Computer) next to the source code of the Apollo missile navigation system in 1969.

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Katie Bouman sat next to eight heaps of data to build black holes.

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Margaret Hamilton stood next to the print source of the Apollo missile navigation system.

Katie Bouman is the person behind the critical algorithm to build the first image of a black hole that humans have.

Three years ago, when graduating from MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence, Bouman led a talented team to develop algorithms to redraw the black hole.

To capture a black hole, scientists used a network of observatories around the world. Each observatory is at a corner location, continuously for long periods of time to get huge amounts of data.

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At that time, they will use Bouman's algorithm and many other algorithms to combine the collected data into a complete image. The next job is to remove the 'noisy' pieces of data. It is Bouman who is the head of the image authentication team, picking out crucial data to create the complete image.

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Bouman said they have developed many different algorithms to serve different assumptions about black holes.

And they succeeded, creating a photo that marked the history of astrophysics.

Vincent Fish, a researcher at MIT's Haystack Observatory, said the image processing process by young hands and Bouman's contributions were huge. Katie Bouman represents the young generation in science!