See a black hole for the first time in a historic image from the Event Horizon Telescope

[Judi Lynn]

1. Meet Katie Bouman, the MIT grad who helped capture the black-hole image

Meet Katie Bouman, the MIT grad who helped capture the black-hole image
By Brian MacQuarrie 4 hrs ago

Katherine Bouman had devoted years to the astonishing quest — to help capture the first image of a massive black hole in a distant galaxy, a void so dense no light can escape.

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© handout Katherine Bouman and her astrophysicist colleagues kept the black hole picture secret for a year for study.
But when the mind-bending breakthrough finally came almost a year ago, the discovery had to stay a secret.



So, after the stunning image was revealed to the world Wednesday, Bouman’s excitement spilled out at what seemed the speed of light.

“We’ve been busting at the seams about what we’ve seen, but we had to keep our mouths shut,” said Bouman, 29, a doctoral graduate of MIT who continued her studies at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

What she and a large team of scientists from MIT, Harvard, and other universities had seen was the first-ever image of a cosmic black hole 53 million light-years away, a time-warping and light-twisting mystery of the universe whose existence Albert Einstein had hinted at a century ago.

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