Bouman’s algorithm helped us to image the invisible
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In 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a global array of radio telescopes working together as part of an international effort – captured an image of the black hole that resides in Messier 87, for the first time revealing what these galactic gobblers truly look like. Katie Bouman was one of the brilliant minds behind the scenes, contributing code to the algorithm that made processing the telescope data into an image a possibility.