Thread by @MIT_CSAIL

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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