A 29-year-old computer scientist is having her moment in the sun after leading the development of an algorithm that produced the first-ever picture of a black hole.
Dr. Katie Bouman started making the system three years ago while she was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
"Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancements of science and mankind," she tweeted. "Here's to #WomenInSTEM!"MIT graduate Dr. Bouman posted her reaction to Facebook as the black hole image loaded on her laptop for the first time. At MIT, Dr. Bouman led the project assisted by a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the MIT Haystack Observatory.
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