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2019-04-13 | Trolls are harassing a scientist who helped photograph a black hole - The Verge

'Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole Black holes don’t suck, but sometimes the internet doesIt’s so easy to be excited about Katie Bouman. '

'The next day, the Times published an article called “How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project”. '

'She’s the 29-year-old computer scientist whose utter glee at seeing a black hole for the first time was captured in a picture that warmed hearts around the world. '

'The trolls focused in on one of her colleagues, Andrew Chael, who was listed on GitHub as the primary developer for one of the algorithms that revealed the black hole, and started circulating his picture instead. '

'Today, that image was released.” The account linked to a 2016 story about Bouman developing an algorithm for the project. '


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