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M87 Black Hole Imaging

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2019

Katie Bouman10 April 2019

Science / Astronomy

Contributes imaging methods used by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration to reconstruct the first black hole image from M87 data.

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Katie Bouman

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