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Don’t forget to give credit to Katie Bouman, an MIT grad behind Black Hole pic

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Image Credit: Twitter/@floragraham

It was historic when the world got first ever photo of Black Hole and the credit goes to Katie Bouman. She is an MIT graduation student & the development of the algorithm that made it possible to create the image of a black hole was led by her. Surprised Katie lauded for her victory on social media. With CHIRP she collected data from 8 radio telescopes that captured the black hole image and turned it into an image.