US computer scientist Katie Bouman, who became a global sensation over her role in generating the world’s first image of a black hole, has described the painstaking process as akin to listening to a piano with broken keys. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-imaging-black-hole-broken-piano.html…
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Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
The sexist backlash against the woman involved with the black hole image, explained. Just after the Event Horizon Telescope project announced last week that its astronomers had managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, MIT tweeted this image. Here’s the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes… Continue reading Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
Reddit’s Data Hoarders Are Freaking Out Over All Those Black Hole Hard Drives
Sure, imaging a black hole for the first time ever is exciting, but posters on Reddit’s /r/datahoarder subreddit are focused on the data. 