A 29-year-old female graduate student was behind algorithms which helped capture the first-ever picture of a black hole

Katie Bouman built the algorithms at MIT which helped astronomers stitch millions of gigabytes of data together to create the black hole photo.

supermassive black holeThe algorithms which played a major role in allowing a supermassive black hole to be photographed for the first time were mainly designed three years ago by a graduate student in her 20s.

Katie Bouman, now 29, was studying computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and worked at the school's Haystack Observatory. Scientists published the first image of a black hole on Wednesday, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87.In the search for a way to capture an image of the black hole, located 55 million light years away in the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, astronomers at MIT took part in the Event Horizon Telescope project, but faced a serious problem.

They could not stitch-together millions of gigabytes of data captured by several telescopes from all over the world.Katie Bouman."We developed ways to generate synthetic data and used different algorithms and tested blindly to see if we can recover an image,"

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