Black holes are monstr­ous celest­ial entiti­es exerti­ng gravit­ationa­l fields that no matter or light can escape­While astronomers were given their due credit for unveiling the first picture of a black hole, MIT grad student Katie Bouman was the one behind the algorithm that helped capture the image. Bouman shared on her Facebook page the disbelief as her image was being processed which was later shared via Twitter by MIT’s official page. Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed. Event Horizon Telescope, a global network of eight ground-based telescopes was brought together to create a large telescope that would help collect light data from the black hole. The image shown today is the… Posted by Katie Bouman on Wednesday, April 10, 2019This story originally appeared on Mashable.

Source: The Express Tribune April 11, 2019 07:29 UTC