#FIRST BLACK HOLE PICTURE SOFTWARE#
#FIRST BLACK HOLE PICTURE CODE#

The European research commissioner Carlos Moedas said at the conference in Brussels today that the history of science will be divided into “the time before this image” and “the time after this image”.įirstly, let’s answer this question. This marks a great moment in a project that spans the globe and a true showing of what international co-operation can achieve. Six simultaneous conferences occurred around the world today and revealed this picture at the same time. But what most places are failing to underline is how this little blurry picture is one of the most significant breakthroughs in physics in most of our lifetimes. Today astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope Project (EHTP) unveiled the first-ever picture of a black hole and I’m sure most of you will have seen or heard of it by now. Balances, Scales and Weighing Equipment.That same day, The Washington Post published an article about the online controversy surrounding Bouman's work titled ' Trolls hijacked a scientist’s image to attack Katie Bouman. On April 12th, Redditor DankMemesKing777 posted an edited version of the photo with Minecraft on her computer screen to /r/ dankmemes, where it gained over 54,200 points (93% upvoted) and 560 comments.

#FIRST BLACK HOLE PICTURE SOFTWARE#

(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library ( ) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. That day, Chael posted a thread on Twitter condemning 'sexist attacks' on Bouman (shown below).

#FIRST BLACK HOLE PICTURE CODE#

He wrote 850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black hole image algorithm' to /r/pics, which was subsequently deleted for having an 'inappropriate title.' The following day, Redditor SmellyTheBluCow submitted a post titled 'Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the picture if the black hole' to /r/unpopularopinion, citing the project's GitHub page showing that programmers Andrew Chael and Michael Johnson contributed a majority of commits. Meanwhile, a post titled 'This is Andrew Chael. That day, Redditor GrumpyWendigo posted the photo to /r/photoshopbattles, where numerous edited examples were submitted in the comments.

Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 195,800 points (86% upvoted) and 6,200 comments on /r/pics. Katie Bouman, identifying her as 'the computer scientist behind the first ever image of a black-hole' (shown below). On April 10th, 2019, Redditor iKojan tweeted a photograph of Dr. For example, a post made by Redditor Dragonjazz, referncing Surprised Pikachu meme, gained over 33,600 upvotes in four hours. In the hours following the public release of the image, it gained significant popularity online as an exploitable. Multiple major news outlets reported on the story, including news articles by ABC News, Telegraph,, CNN and BBC.

On the same day, National Science Foundation tweeted the image, with the post accumulating over 29,700 retweets and 53,400 likes within 12 hours.

In the released photograph, a supermassive black hole and its shadow can be seen. The photograph of black hole at the center of Messier 87 galaxy was made using the Event Horizon Telescope, an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes designed to capture the image. On April 10th, 2019, National Science Foundation issued a press release revealing the first ever photograph of a black hole.

First black hole picture