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realDonaldTrump [soylentnews.org] writes:

foxnews.com/science/internet-trolls-discredit-katie-boumans-black-hole-project [foxnews.com]

A picture of Bouman reacting to her sudden celebrity status this week went viral.

But following her newfound fame, Bouman became the target of Internet trolls who said Andrew Chael, a male colleague, did most of the work on the project. Memes of Chael that said he was responsible for “850,000 of the 900,000 of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm” went viral on social media sites such as Reddit and Twitter, The Hill reported.

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