Computer scientists were instrumental to producing the newly unveiled image of a black hole, a scientific first. Katie Bouman, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, helped develop new methods that sifted through the mountains of data collected from multiple telescopes around the world by the Event Horizon Telescope project. Without such algorithms, the image wouldn’t have been possible.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 11, 2019 01:18 UTC