The girl came up with a program that allowed humanity to see the secrets of space for the first time
The girl who created the algorithm, thanks to which the sensational photo was obtained, became the heroine of the Internet.
It became known that the photo of a black hole, which went around almost all the world's media, appeared thanks to the ingenuity of Katie Bouman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After all, it was she who led the team that developed a cunning algorithm that ultimately made it possible to obtain an image of an incredibly distant object. The girl instantly became incredibly popular, as did the results of her work. The photo of Katie herself went viral. The camera captured the researcher at the moment when that sensational image first appeared on the computer screen.
This photo of Katie Bowman became no less famous than the photo of a black hole.
Let me remind you that on April 10, 2019, the world's first images of a black hole located in the M87 galaxy, 53 million light years from Earth, were released. The images were demonstrated by astrophysicists of the Event Horizon Telescope (UNT) observatory. It united several of the largest radio telescopes scattered across different continents into a global network. the event horizon, astronomically speaking, is an area from which not even light can escape.
Katie figured out how to synchronize the telescopes involved in the project. But most importantly: through her efforts, an algorithm was developed that made it possible to visualize a huge array of collected data into a single whole - the very photo.
The girl who created the algorithm, thanks to which the sensational photo was obtained, became the heroine of the Internet:
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Shep Doeleman, UNT project manager at Harvard University, explained that taking a photo of a black hole 500 million trillion kilometers from Earth is more difficult than reading a newspaper in Los Angeles looking at it from Washington. It might not have happened without Katie.
Katie Bowman - 29 She is a computer scientist - studied at MIT. In black holes she did not understand anything and does not understand. But, holding her breath, she watched the mesmerizing sight - how, obeying her algorithm, an image of something that no one had seen before appeared on the screen.
Katie developed the first version of her algorithm in 2016.
By the way, a photo of a black hole has become a popular subject for artistic creation on the Internet. Cat's eyes and Zauron's eye are perhaps the best examples.
The bottomless eyes of a cat.
The black hole has been compared to the eye of Zauron. Who knows, maybe someone is actually looking from there.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY