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Astronomers capture first ever image of Black Hole

Astronomers have captured the first-ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy known as ‘Messier 87’ (M87), through a network of 8 linked radio telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. The black hole in the centre of M87 has a mass of more than six billion solar ..

Topics: Astronomical imaging • Astronomy • Black hole • BlackHoleCam • Event Horizon Telescope • Galaxies • Katie Bouman • Messier 87 • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Sagittarius A*

MIT student creates an Algorithm that made first Black hole image

Computer scientist Katie Bouman, who is still a graduate student at MIT has developed the algorithm to create the first image ever of a black hole. Katie has named the algorithm ‘CHIRP’ (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors) which was needed to gather data from 8 radio telescopes across the world working under Event Horizon ..

Topics: Astronomical imaging • Astronomy • Black hole • European Southern Observatory • Event Horizon Telescope • Katie Bouman • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Radio telescope • Telescope