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Katie Bouman is the 29-year-old scientist behind first image of black hole

Rejected submission by realDonaldTrump at 2019-04-13 00:20:43 from the ALGORITHM dept.
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realDonaldTrump [soylentnews.org] writes:

foxnews.com/science/katie-bouman-29-year-old-scientist-behind-first-real-image-of-black-hole-goes-viral [foxnews.com]

Katie Bouman reacted modestly to her sudden celebrity status this week, but the scientist whose graduate school work helped lead to the first image of a black hole Wednesday, is getting her due.

Bouman, who is an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at Cal Tech, created an algorithm during grad school at MIT that made the image possible.

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