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We at @MIT_CSAIL are so proud of the role our alum Dr. Katie Bouman played in the development of the first-ever picture of a black hole. She's been psyched about all the #blackhole interest & just wanted to clarify a few things. (1/7)
In our first tweet about this, we linked to a 2016 story about an algorithm she led the development of while at CSAIL. That algorithm was intended to take a picture of a black hole, but didn’t create the final image. (cont.)(2/7)
It inspired image validation procedures in the final paper, and the EHT team together developed new methods that were used in reconstructing the black hole image.(3/7)
The published EHT paper is based on those different algorithms, created by the entire international imaging team, with many contributing researchers from @ehtelescope -- @MITHaystack @saoastro @prcnaoj_en & many other institutions. (4/7)
Dr. Bouman: “No one person or algorithm made the image. It was actually made by combining the images produced by 3 separate imaging pipelines, leading to a more powerful result than we could ever achieve with any single method.” bit.ly/ApJL4 (5/7)
Congratulations again to the global collaboration of over 200 scientists who made this discovery possible! (6/7)
Check out more stories about the many #EHT contributions, including vital work in telescope instrumentation and data processing!

EHT: bit.ly/EHTsite
MIT: bit.ly/MITBH
Harvard: bit.ly/BHHarvard

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Ben Collins
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No matter how positive of a development, like being the first person to take a photo of a black hole, YouTube's algorithm will reward the most extreme, almost universally negative version of any topic.

It's not just baked into the cake. It is the cake.
This garbage started on Reddit, where people looked through Bouman's GitHub to try to "prove" she didn't put in the work on the black hole image. It's all over "men's rights" subreddits like r/MGTOW.

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First ever direct image of a black hole! The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 -- 6.5 billion times as massive as the Sun! #EHT #BlackHole The image is better than I expected! A glowing ring, brighter on the bottom, with a dark region in the middle
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