How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman

At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of that shadow could help answer some important questions about the universe. Scientists used to think that making such an image would require a telescope the size of Earth -- until Katie Bouman and a team of astronomers came up with a clever alternative. Bouman explains how we can take a picture of the ultimate dark using the Event Horizon Telescope.
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[@grofflek3250]

She said “first photos in couple of years”. Her prediction was spot on :)

[@evlnachoz9814]

Every two years star align

[@rafg.1493]

She didn't predict the future, she MADE the future happen

[@PriyoM1993]

Cause they were compiling the date for 2 years.

[@ImmyYousafzai]

I just made the same comment first and then read this @Grof Flek you were 23hrs ahead of me lol

[@nilupaerabudukeyoumu7467]

The sixth sense in women

[@Rushi_83]

I like how she is nervous yet excited about first black hole image.

[@jacoblim9439]

Dude,it's 2017 video

[@salman_ahm_]

Fkkkkkkk🙂😅

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

She is nervous because she was given credit for work she hasn't done. That's stealing, generally regarded as wrong.

[@ALBINO1D]

@@Cl0ckW0rks0 stfu troll.

[@bibekster8910]

she is nervously cute

[@shi2222]

these are people that ACTUALLY deserves the popularity

[@user-tq6fx7tl7e]

Ikr. Not like pewdiepew dis bish who's doing meme review

[@shi2222]

Invincible Gamer no baby don’t come at my boi pewdiepie

[@arindam1249]

@@user-tq6fx7tl7e absolutely

[@randomguy3779]

umm...there was a guy who wrote 95,000 out of the 100,000 lines of code for this project,and then nobody bats an eye about him?

[@shi2222]

RaNDom GuY uh I wrote “these people” instead of “her” in the intention of including her team too. I don’t know why u so mad, get some milk

[@BlondeIsAnInvestment]

Omg she’s too excited it’s contagious! I love it!

[@capcaricap]

@Alexander Køpke it's okay.. not everyone has the knowledge to understand

[@suckmybat]

@@agustrimaulidyanto9439 Maybe English isnt your first language, but even so, what a PITIFUL attempt at humor.

[@agustrimaulidyanto9439]

@@suckmybat yes, i mean she's vegana. Sorry for bad engrish. Oh okay she explain too serious, only power point can make audience laugh. Thats way i make cringe humor here.

[@liptonyellow801]

@@agustrimaulidyanto9439 you kiss your momma with that mouth?

[@agustrimaulidyanto9439]

@@liptonyellow801 no, but indian guy did that

[@davidekundayomi2277]

2017: “I can’t show you a black hole” 2019: “hold my beer”

[@RatherA]

"hold our beer"

[@jaahigafiscaa]

Imagine all those prayer beads

[@AzureC2]

WHAT? THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING! HOLD YOUR OWN BEER!

[@gabrielneves1970]

Hahahaha

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

*uses spray tool in pain*

[@brianschwarm8267]

Watching this two years later after you accomplished your goal Dr. Bouman! Congratulations!

[@erabhikdasgupta]

Actually Andrew Chael did the heavy work.

[@muziqaz]

@@erabhikdasgupta go to google, search "Andrew Chael twitter" click on first search result, and read a little bit, you dumbass. After that, take your internet router/modem, and throw it through the window.

[@MikhailKalashnikovMiG]

abhik dasgupta will you for once in your life do some research instead of taking garbage memes at face value and thinking them to be facts?

[@MikhailKalashnikovMiG]

Genna Tuelz it’s truly embarrassing that there are still people like you who believe random Facebook posts and reddit memes without actually doing any proper fact checking on your own. Your stupidity is definitely legit

[@charliesheen7975]

Here are all the facts github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors Bouman is klbouman. Numbers don't lie

[@sammyakbhowmik6935]

1. Light doesn't escape a black hole once it crosses a certain boundary. (the event horizon) 2. Theoretically, the size of the telescope required to take the picture of this particular black hole would be roughly the size of the Earth. 3. The black hole is 53mil light years away. So, the scientists took a picture of something 53mil ly away which was not supposed to be visible using a method which was not supposed to work and yet they made it possible. #Respect.

[@kellyecaceres2935]

All you have said is logic.

[@frazerasokan2912]

1. Light sucked into the black hole is visible and that is what has been snapped 2. There is multiple telescopes around the globe which basically acts as a telescope all together the size of the earth. 3. The light still reaches us even if it is 53mil light years or so away.

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

In paint.exe (trial version).

[@geocentricflatwater3181]

Sammyak Bhowmik shhhhhh. I have a secret for you. THERE IS NO SPACE.

[@MrSarcasm101]

@@frazerasokan2912 "The light still reaches us even if it is 53mil light years or so away" An how do you capture this light without a big enough telescope? Angular resolution is the problem.

[@rach101]

I want to borrow her enthusiasm for my studies 😌

[@erickort1987]

id borrow her for other reasons ...hee hee

[@justmyth9439]

You dont deserve it.

[@MrTheRabber]

I NEED her enthusiasm for my studies and actually I'm here just bored of studying

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

How much are you willing to pay?

[@isabellagallegoherrera7346]

Rachana Khadka It’s god. He is everything and he is happy to help you, if accept him at your life.

[@brucedenis71]

Her predictive reconstruction at 7:20 was spot on. Pretty much exactly what the first picture looked like.

[@parikshitsolunke3930]

Careful there, people will start a conspiracy theory here

[@kingofheartsxyz]

hahah yea .. probably they just posted the same picture .. and called it the real deal !

[@marklewis4793]

i'm deliciously suspicious,can't wait for the conspiracy theorists n religeonistas to represent!

[@tistoni09]

it's called adding a "prior". You can massage any data set until it gives you the answer you're "expecting"

[@rushmetofood]

Because she was a part of the research team that made it happen. They had been working on it for years.

[@mrdzuan94]

"Although I won't be able to show you a real picture of a black hole today," You can now Katie, you definitely can.

[@gellagz9009]

Bob and vagene

[@kronek88]

Whamen

[@user-bf3ix9jw6g]

She contributed a lot to the project

[@norwoodnick4645]

@@user-bf3ix9jw6g She contributed 10,000 out of 900,000 lines of code

[@eberrios67]

Ur black hole was horrifying

[@Squirelockholms]

I love how they titled this "How to take a picture of a black hole", like there are household items and an instagram filter involved in the process.

[@brunandre]

Squirelockholms good click bait. Congrats

[@josephemris]

2019: Scientists capture the first ever picture of the black hole KZbin Recommendation: How to take a picture of a black hole

[@alexelvira4762]

Thank god there is a tutorial I've been waiting for this

[@PrathamBhatia]

Alec Rider i guess i just feel like Nobody’s honest Nobody’s true Everyone’s lying To make it all through I guess I just feel like

[@inigourrestarazu8606]

laughing emoji

[@chaitanyaeshwarappa9501]

the Black hole picture gonna updated and printed in educational textbooks all over the globe. Wow! great lady.

[@yuribandolon5467]

Wow your an idiot

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

Great lady? She only wrote 2500 lines of code lol Andrew Chael wrote 850,000. How about give credit to the guy who did most of the work?

[@AbcightDev]

​@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 You clearly have no experience with computer science if you measure importance of code by its lines - "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight" is a famous quote by Bill Gates. While Andrew wrote 850,000 lines of code, he did it under Katie's supervision and the lines were mostly the 'helper' type of code and datasets, which were required to take this picture, but just about any good programmer could do it, it just takes a lot of time. Katie's 2,500 lines of code were the most important lines. Why? They were the ones dictating how Andrew's code should be pieced together in order to take the photo. While what Andrew did is impressive, his work could have been done by other programmers, Katie's couldn't as she was the only person in the world who knew how the algorithm should work - because she invented it.

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@AbcightDev Here's Katies 3 biggest contributions and you can look it up: -Added ability to change font size of colour bar -Make it possible for scientific notation of colour bar -Changing size of Gaussian you add for zbl Lmao. Andrew did most of the work and it wouldn't have happened without him. Stay salty

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@jesper3785 Didn't see this until now. He basically said "yeah me and my team did most of the work but stop being mean to Katie" Lmfao. You're a torpid lugubrious dolt

[@relicawaits7968]

Listen to the enthusiasm in her voice! I wish I could be as focused and passionate about anything as she is about her work! Dr. Bouman, you and your team have done something of great historical and scientific significance, but your passion and excitement make you my hero. Respect. .

[@Malorn179]

Now that it's a few years after the image was released, looking at Katie explaining so assuredly how they're going to do it as a future event is amazing. Even though she was so confident and saying "this is how it will work" despite not having actually done it yet, I completely understand the expression on her face when she first saw the completed image. There's definitely a look of "OMG, it really worked! We did it!" She deserves every bit of recgnition she's gotten for her amazing work. I do have one question though.... have we found any oranges on the moon yet?

[@user-th1fq8lx8g]

Almost exactly 2 years later we have the first images of a black hole

[@tjharley85]

666 days later? Lol that was entirely a guess.... and probably right.

[@michaeldeth1485]

Rationed synchronicity? 😂😂😂

[@glg9238]

And it looks exactly same as predicted ...

[@imjustsayingtho1464]

ᚠᛁᛗᛒᚢᛚ ᚦᚢᛚᚢᚱ computer generated image is not a real blackhole

[@axoletlmusic]

@@imjustsayingtho1464 the black hole image is made by collecting data of the em radiation from the surroundings of the black hole...... turns out thats also what a camera does

[@mariam4279]

Who's here after seeing the first picture of the black hole?

[@RedRocket4000]

Here

[@marklewis4793]

..everybody!

[@tristenlively89]

That she took too!

[@yyangcn]

Nah, I saw it almost two years ago when it was first posted. It appeared in my feed again today and I realized I "Liked" this back then.

[@dr2d2]

me

[@playportalapp]

I have no idea how these people rapid fire their speeches nearly flawlessly, I could never do this.

[@ucnguyenminh9393]

Because they know exactly what they're talking about lol

[@maggles1]

Practice, practice, practice!

[@martinluizaga]

"there is no try, do or do not", Yoda.

[@trixietru]

Dom Nidy I was thinking the same thing. I was remembering when I used to do public speaking. I needed a hand full of palm notes. Just goes to show how much enthusiasm she has for the subject. Mind you, I did imagine just for an instant, that she was being fed the speech through an ear piece, and that was why she was speaking so quickly ie. to keep up. But only for an instant.

[@chuckkhubbard610]

You don't know how much of their working day consists of practicing these kinds of speeches in their minds.

[@hhampole]

Katie Bouman. Congratulations for your effort towards this endeavor! I reserve my biggest compliments to all the backend ladies and gentlemen who did their part and did not get any sort of credit whatsoever from the media. You are all heroes too.

[@HeenaAkbar]

Nolan must be proud she said “Interstellar”

[@crystalclear7799]

Heena Shamsheer she should be casted for Murph

[@PrathamBhatia]

Elon musk is a goat

[@PrathamBhatia]

Tuuti shamsheeren to kya Tuuten takdiren to kya Kar har maidan fateh

[@hauntedhose]

Why? They both produce Sci Fi movies the public gobbble up as if it where real......

[@AzureC2]

TRUE!

[@digitalcat303]

This talk somehow restores my faith in humanity.

[@ramoncaceres4399]

wont stop wars tho, just calm curiosity

[@ikhlashasan2624]

the first photo in two years. Her prediction was spot on, also I appreciate explains everything in full detail and in a simple way.

[@annikaschend8145]

she’s so passionate about it I love that

[@HeyItsDena]

"i'd like to encourage all of you to go out, and help push the boundaries of science(the boundaries we set to ourselves). Even if it may at first seem as mysterious to you as a black hole." THIS IS THE LIFE ADVICE WE ALL NEEDED.

[@not_an_undercover_cop]

I saw this in my recommendations and at first I was like, "Another video about the black hole and Katie Bouman..." then I saw that it was posted 2 years ago!!! WHAAA?!?!?!?!!?!

[@skeletonbc]

Hahahaha same!

[@acassiadavidson7428]

She's so cute! I'm so proud of her! Her work finally paid off and is being recognised! I'm so happy for her!

[@swapnagogoi4973]

Dont believe the media. It is blatant lies and feminist agenda that the media is portraying the real man behind the work was Andrew chael who wrote 850000 lines out of 900000 lines of code. She only made the file formatter for the program which was optional , but of course the media loves a women as the basis of a story .The truth is that she stole all the credit of the team .Think about it this way a whole team works on a project that will basically lift mankind and thena all the credit goes to one woman ONE WOMAN who did the optional work .

[@justalittlebitoflove6520]

@@swapnagogoi4973 Did you read his thread on twitter? BTW, there are many other women in the team.

[@ThomasKundera]

@@swapnagogoi4973 : You are totally wrong, sexist and stupid. Get informed.

[@suckmybat]

@@swapnagogoi4973 Jesus get your facts straight before posting crap like this. See what Andrew Chael himself wrote about this: twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116519313488470017 Your such a tool.

[@Marc_Masters]

,💯

[@davidplowie4670]

No background in astronomy - finds black hole. Awsome.

[@astronomyfan8145]

​@Paul Borst Why don't you find out what she actually did before making false claims about her. It would really suit you.

[@777wrath]

@@astronomyfan8145 go to the project on github, Andrew sheal wrote 850,000 out of 900,000 lines of code. She did 24,000...

[@astronomyfan8145]

@@777wrath She came up with the algorithm that inspired actual algorithm used. She helped on the actual one too. So did Andrew. It doesn't matter who wrote how much. Whether you like it or not, she and her team still came up with the answer. So deal with it, you tool. Also, spell his name right. And guess what? He would NOT appreciate what you're doing. Go read his tweet. He would be ashamed of you and what you're typing, misogynistic pig. Why don't you and your 1800s sexist brothers shut up about who did what, and actually APPRECIATE what these guys have done? Hmmm? Seriously, thank God that the men scientists on those teams were actual MEN and PEOPLE who didnt care WHO got the algorithm, or who wrote how much. They also treated Katie and the other women not as women, but as people That's why I take them seriously as people! You and your woman-hating buddies are some of the biggest banes of humanity. We have a history-changing achievement and THIS is what you care about! What a shame. Shame on you. And to all the others.

[@lebest8415]

@@astronomyfan8145 You took it way too far. Just because he said the guy wrote more lines of code than a woman that doesn't mean he is a misogynistic. Fool.

[@astronomyfan8145]

@@lebest8415 Yes it does. You need to learn about subtext and tone. You are the ones who are taking it way too far. In all honesty, it doesn't matter who wrote what or more lines than anyone else. The results are the same. Yet you misogynistic fools care only about THIS. Embarrassing. Le best, grow up and focus on the important things in life. And actually appreciate a PERSON, instead of their gender. Good Luck! 🌑

[@chappzstix]

Watching this TED Talk after the first images of a black hole have been released. I'd like to extend my congratulations and gratitude to the entire Event Horizon Telescope Team for their dedication and effort into achieving this remarkable and astonishing accomplishment! I hope to see future work released from this amazing team in the near future.

[@pirateray6715]

I hate to break the bad news to you. That is NOT how a black hole actually looks. The truth is, a black hole is completely black.

[@Stezzanz]

​​@@pirateray6715yes you're correct, you cannot see a black hole. You can however observe a black hole due to the accretion disk.

[@ramfat]

The supposed "image" of a black hole taken by the EHT in M87 have been debunked. The image only looked like that because of the limited coverage of the array, and a data sampling bias. (M. Miyoshi, Y. Kato, and J. Makino)

[@moose2436]

Who is watching this video after seeing the first picture of black hole ? [April 10th, 2019] Yes, on 10th April, this actually became a reality. Thank you Katie Bouman.

[@weiwei9822]

watched it at 2017, rewatch on 11th April 2019, one day the black hole real image is released. Yes

[@purpleyyy]

@Mikko what do you mean "least in the project"? She originated the idea, developed the algorithm for viewing, and led it's progress from MIT. Yes, she was grad student when it started out, and if you think that making a telescope move is more "work" then coming up with an algorithm in your brain and computer, then I guess you're entitled to your view. But without her, this project wouldn't exist (at least, not at this time), this is rightly Dr Bouman's achievement to claim. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-47891902?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fscience-environment-47891902

[@SandyBathwater]

@Mikko Seems she would be the first to agree with you. Images using multiple static telescopes is not new. What she came up with is what made it possible to make an image from multiple telescopes recording data from different positions over time. Her contribution is what made it possible. At least, that's my opinion.

[@esaedvik]

I have a bit more hope for mankind as people like her get celebrated for their contributions. Just an amazing team.

[@Sujad]

I can't imagine how Andrew Chael must feel. He wrote 95% of the code used for the algorithm that allowed the pictures to be created but instead of being heaped with the praise he deserves, some random girl who barely contributed anything to the algorithm gets all of the credit and becomes the sole face of it. He can't even complain about it either or he'll be branded a misogynist and have his academic future destroyed.

[@esaedvik]

@@Sujad Ahh yes, it's so hard to be a man. I doubt this praise is enough to erase decades of misogyny she's experienced to get where she is. But sure, feel bad for the dudes. Let's just be happy they all contributed and the end results are amazing and will inspire tons more people to get into the sciences.

[@Sujad]

@@esaedvik That attitude right there is some grade A subtle misogyny. Women can't be held to the same standards as men so they can get away with things men couldn't or shouldn't be able to get away with. Fantastistic! Good job! Also, Andrew did the overwhelming majority of the work. He should have gotten the overwhelming majority of the praise too.

[@rajchowdhury5547]

She made it sound easy. Such an amazing woman. People like her deserve more attention and should be an essential part of pop culture to keep young minds interested in science.

[@Sujad]

I can't imagine how Andrew Chael must feel. He wrote 95% of the code used for the algorithm that allowed the pictures to be created but instead of being heaped with the praise he deserves, some random girl who barely contributed anything to the algorithm gets all of the credit and becomes the sole face of it. He can't even complain about it either or he'll be branded a misogynist and have his academic future destroyed.

[@samiracosta962]

@@Sujad In Chael’s words: “Once I realized that many online commentators were using my name and image to advance a sexist agenda to claim that Katie’s leading role in our global team was invented, I felt I should say something to make it clear I rejected that view. I did not write “850,000 lines of code”-many of those “lines” tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don’t care how many of those I personally authored.” AND though Katie Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork. “No one of us could’ve done it alone,” Bouman told CNN. “It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds.” Women in science are cited less in their research, have a more difficult time getting published and are paid 40 percent less in fields like physics and astronomy. So, no, his “academic future” won't be destroyed.

[@Sujad]

@@samiracosta962 As I previously said, if he didn't come out in support of her, he'd be cancelled. Of course he's going to say that. Secondly, how nice of her to say that yet she accepted every speaking gig and appearance instead of asking to have her colleague with her or appear in her place. Words are cheap. Lastly, women are cited less in research because the actual noteworthy contributions to science by women is incredibly rare. Currie would be considered an outlier in comparison. It's the same reason why women don't go into STEM or become CEOs. It's not because they can't, it's because they don't tend to choose to put in the work. It's the same for a lot of men who also don't go into STEM fields or CEO positions.

[@filipen.9522]

Well since she did 6%of the job , id say its fair for her to think it was easy. Andrew Chael prolly has a different opinion even if he cant say at the risk of getting sued.

[@lifestylelines]

@@samiracosta962 Thanks so much for this comment. Spot on! 💯

[@jmg999]

Today, this talk became reality. It's an incredible achievement, Dr. Bouman! Well-done, and keep up the great work!

[@user-tx2zd7hj9x]

Now this has come true, what an epical achievement!

[@namithad2063]

One of the best possible lectures where such complex theories are explained in such a simple level...Inspiring, informational, interesting...All in the same frame....Feeling blessed, proud and lucky to have witnessed this creation of science...Congrats to the entire team in front of and behind this project...

[@anon-kl8tm]

Katie, congratulations to you and your team for actually accomplishing this! Pat-backs? You need more!

[@chaitanya183]

Looks like she practiced it 200 times. Fantastic job

[@hi-pq7xv]

She did a bad job ive seen much better perfomance

[@Qrob214]

She was excited and therefore talked very fast. Probably she has not talked to the public very often.

[@BiteMyHeadOff883]

​@@Qrob214 It is obviously a memorized talk, but if my own PhD student was supposed to have TED talk I would advice him/her to practice it many times before. You cannot expect most of these people just go and spontaneously talk.

[@petrabanjarnahor229]

@@Qrob214 yes it makes it even better!

[@spacix4118]

hi She actually got the first picture of a black hole to the public today. Don’t you look just fucking stupid.

[@Overonator]

Her enthusiasm is infectious.

[@premier69]

gamespy

[@Overonator]

Yeah.

[@troycambo]

like herpes

[@thesentientneuron6550]

Extremely

[@MOONLIGHT-lz7kt]

This video had less than 1Milion view before 5 days. Conclusion:- People will appreciate you only after you become famous.

[@improbablydonewithyou3301]

After you succeed* sad reality.

[@Vector_Ze]

I have a video nearing a quarter million views and find that fact amazing! Its view count has left some of my other videos in the dust, some of which have been online for 6-7 years. But, 74 days after publishing it only had about 250 views. The rest have occurred in the past 54-days and the view graph has formed an obvious hockey stick. I'm sure KZbin's algorithms exposed it to more people for some reason after its first two months, but I don't claim to understand them. Unlike Katie Bouman, I didn't suddenly become famous. If that were the case, I could understand it.

[@shoebmoin10]

People will appreciate you only after you have done the things which you said were possible. Just a different way at looking things dude.

[@Toad_Moto]

In other words, talk is cheap.

[@AlbonWu]

no. views aren't indicative of appreciation. they're indicative of fame which you pointed out she attained a few days ago

[@yuichisu174]

Thank you for easily understandable explanation Katie and congratulations on what your team achieved!

[@lauriemcmonigle351]

She actually did it yesterday! Bravo Katie!

[@thomashe1254]

Well, she (and the rest of the teams) did it a year ago, and that was only because they were waiting on the data from south pole for like 8 months. They've been sitting on the image because they needed to write papers and get those papers peer-reviewed and then published in respectable journals - basically they wouldn't want to give to the public something that hasn't stood up to the scrutiny of the scientific community at large.

[@Anita_Bath]

Way to give all the credit to some chick with a lisp. She did about 6% of the work.

[@glx333]

@@Anita_Bath she said herself that it was a team work. Bravo for putting another woman down! 👏🏾👏🏾

[@sanjanapatwari910]

@@Anita_Bath "some chick with a lisp" good job putting someone who's achieved something great down like that. Her predictions were right and with whatever percentage, she was a part of something huge. Respect to her.

[@Anita_Bath]

​@@sanjanapatwari910 My point is that SHE is getting all the credit when there are other great people who too achieved something great, who also did a ton more work than SHE did. But she's young and cute, so lets give it ALL to her. You have a narrow, ideological perspective.

[@Thiscouldbeyou]

This video aged really well. Congrats to the whole team, and especially to you Dr.Bouman!

[@Pohtaters]

What's amazing is she was able to simplify the technical concepts and make us appreciate the research. A talent, i think, not all scientists have.

[@Sujad]

I can't imagine how Andrew Chael must feel. He wrote 95% of the code used for the algorithm that allowed the pictures to be created but instead of being heaped with the praise he deserves, some random girl who barely contributed anything to the algorithm gets all of the credit and becomes the sole face of it. He can't even complain about it either or he'll be branded a misogynist and have his academic future destroyed.

[@procrastinartist2825]

@@Sujad random girl? i smell jealousy here

[@deepdarkmidnight]

My PhD thesis seems so shallow in comparison to hers. She's a very smart young lady.

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

Then, perhaps, higher learning isn't your thing.

[@deepdarkmidnight]

@@Cl0ckW0rks0 The girl's work helped to depict one of the most mysterious objects in astrophysics, how are you supposed to overshadow that kind of achievement? It's quite insulting what you say without knowing my academic background and professional career.

[@Cl0ckW0rks0]

@@deepdarkmidnight There are several things a miss with your knowledge as well as train of thought. If you had the slightest interest in her ("their") work you should have already been aware that her practical contributions (to be read as written code) were related to parsing data (not the actual set of algorithms). This is not to say that she didn't have a say in their design but still difficult to gauge given publicly available resources. What is depicted as "mysterious" to laymen (such as yourself) is common knowledge in other circles (it's a sprite generated in commercially available software). You appear to be a product of the German educational system, virtually no fluid intelligence, with a very fixed, instilled framework of ideas that your life revolves around, and that's why I'm "mad". What have I done to overshadow "that" kind of achievement? Well, I don't know, I'm arguably one of the smartest people in the world (insofar as psychometrics are concerned (i.e. I.Q.)), fluent in four languages, three degrees in stem, a six figure income and two companies in development, a walking library of sorts and quite a bunch of other stuff too ample to be detailed within the scope of a comment section.

[@deepdarkmidnight]

@@Cl0ckW0rks0 I didn't know that black holes are known in "other circles". Anyway, I don't care to retaliate your assumptions since I'm such a layman and you claim to be a new Einstein. Have a nice day.

[@vinzer72frie]

It's not really that out of the ordinary you can check out her work at github its just another development out there

[@nashville0105]

Who’s here after Katie Bouman’s revealed the real and first picture of the black hole using their massive imaging algorithm. :)

[@danieldeluca4936]

I

[@alanguile8945]

No it was me!

[@soeinspast4096]

wasn't her tho. do your research

[@anuragjoshi47]

She really did it!

[@danieldeluca4936]

@@alanguile8945 Looks like you just created this account. Are you the real Alan Guile?

[@alanguile8945]

YES you did it! Stephen Hawking would have loved to see it.

[@jerrychf]

And also albert einstein too.

[@rdcyoutubediary]

Sad that before this was done, Stephen Hawking passed away. He could have been so delighted to see it.

[@FedorMachida]

He would have screeched with excitement.

[@melbournaut]

I don't think they would be happy with someone taking credit for other people's work. How would they feel if someone did this to them

[@jabloko992]

No, she didn't do it, it was a male colleague of hers that wrote 95% of the quote and the dude gets no credit.

[@aqeel744]

When you believe something, you'll achieve it despite all complexities. I was in an astonishment when I saw the blackhole finally. Great woman and great teamwork indeed!

[@ricksanchez4736]

I love how she s excited while talking about it

[@mysterym2269]

Everyone watching this (again) because they actually took a picture

[@turntablez2771]

Automatically I think. I watched a video of Barış Özcan about black hole and then this video was "recommended" the other day

[@richardwind2859]

Actually they Didnt

[@richardwind2859]

al·go·rithm /ˈalɡəˌriT͟Həm/ Learn to pronounce noun a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. "a basic algorithm for division" .... COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE CGI

[@mysterym2269]

That is what I meant, the algorithm is recommending this because it's a recent topic, they finally made a picture. So yes, it is the algorithm, but people are watching because they took a picture.

[@TheRosiebeam]

@@richardwind2859 finally someone who isn't playing pretend, I mean she admits that in this video. Keeps using the "we can start to become more confident" justification. They could all be dead wrong and future generations laugh at our current science

[@JeremySPeterson]

The most enthusiastic Ph.D. student in the world. It's adorable and intimidating at the same time.

[@ProfesorMamelowsky]

Jeremy Peterson she is being exploited by her principal researcher and she hasn't realised yet.

[@joeyazbeck849]

Jeremy Peterson how so?

[@MrCordycep]

What part of her is intimidating?

[@e11eme]

for me it was her apparent age

[@swatisri2409]

Inspiring, if you are a girl.

[@johnnie135]

I'm so lucky! Katie was behind me at 2023 JBL tour in Pasadena CA. I recognized her instantly and I have a few pictures of her and I. I was 'star' struck. Thanks Katie.

[@kittenoffic]

Absolutely mind-blown by the fact that the predicted picture looks just like the actual footage of the black hole, with the slight difference that the real pic is even better...amazing

[@ybendek]

And then, 2 years later we have finally the first image released....awesome and thank you so much :)

[@saadmalik8076]

its amazing that the expected picture is very similar to original picture we got today

[@HarryManchanda]

Thank you Einstein for that!

[@darlanjimenez6980]

They had it from that date. They just needed data to back it up today.

[@fabio_honda]

watching this today is truely inspiring... Congrats Katie Bouman for being this incredible scientist!!!

[@prashantsaxena434]

Congratulations to the team, its been 2 years since this is video again in my feed which is a nice surprise :D

[@MatheusIvan12]

Future spoiler: You did it! Congrats, Katie and Project Event Horizon Telescope!

[@MatheusIvan12]

@Andy Rosebud Thanks for the answer, but in this case, I was using the plural "you". "No one algorithm or person made this image, it required the amazing talent of a team of scientists from around the globe and years of hard work to develop the instrument, data processing, imaging methods, and analysis techniques that were necessary to pull off this seemingly impossible feat [...]" she said. Do you have something to share with us? :)

[@MatheusIvan12]

@Andy Rosebud :)

[@kaloyandraganov9462]

For f*cks sake she was an assistant in a team of 40 people, she did nothing outstanding but because she took a selfie she is stealing the fame

[@Idol64]

@@LGunzo wishful thinking, and she's not denying the credit

[@shibabrataray8610]

@Andy Rosebud I was expecting a great response but you disappointed me bro ..we have to bring male vs female in every field

[@nicolojavier]

turning the earth into a giant disco ball seems to me, the great purpose of mankind.

[@mounamoussa6579]

josh otis fee

[@lylecozartminer3091]

KZbin(2019):How to picture a blackhole " "(3025): DIY telescope to see a black hole Just being optimistic,sure the world end before 3000

[@tlotpwist3417]

4025 DIY mini black home kit End of the world

[@briskandpepsi]

Stephen Hawking would be so proud. RIP

[@vDarknessFalls]

@MortaL TV Steven hawking was full of crap. Mouthpiece for government funded scientists. Same with NDT. We already know what black holes are. You can make one in your living room. It's expensive, but worth it.

[@sawyer5061]

@@vDarknessFalls do not compare the works of Stephen hawking with Neil. He does not count.

[@Ada-tv7zl]

congratulations and thank you, katie and team, for bringing us the first picture of a black hole! I have so much respect and admiration for you. keep up the good work!

[@PlaNkie1993]

She seems really nervous, but great presentation especially for TED, wow keep doing what you are doing girl, you are going places

[@testaparker7144]

its cuz she cares so freakin much prolly.

[@keepsmiling5937]

Places, Not black hole though ;)

[@smarthalayla6061]

i THOUGHT THAT A BLACK WHOLE IS A BLACK WOMAN VAGINA....

[@keepsmiling5937]

Oh, well..

[@OmegaMegalodon]

lol

[@DrPlatypus1]

She’s so adorable and absolutely brilliant. Love her passion.

[@garychios]

I love her enthusiasm. I remember myself being like this when I was young. This is awesome.

[@nachopena7944]

You just gotta bump up that ISO

[@mdm134]

Ignacio Peña like rrrreeeeealy high up

[@nicholasbridgemohan]

Ignacio Peña won't work. black holes absorb light, doesn't emit any.

[@JonathanHartwig]

Ignacio Peña Enhance.

[@arande3]

Nah you need an ISO that's an imaginary number. I like 9001i. That's a solid ISO for black hole photography.

[@lilacosmanthus]

Fufufufufufufu I chuckled.

[@aaryapatil203]

Kudos to this girl for showing the world the image of something (the black hole) that has baffled scientists for years. What a great time to be alive! She finally did it! Congratulations once again! ❤️

[@jeremy19931710]

Aarya Patil not all by herself

[@mushfek]

@@jeremy19931710 dude do you know what she does/did?

[@jeremy19931710]

-RD- Salind +/- 2500 coding line for a program that requires more than over 900k+ coding line yeah i know what she did

[@twicebitten260]

While it is STUNNING today, in a few years it may be like space travel was to Sheppard's/Glenn's first trip. Or the first walk on the moon. All in my lifetime. Cell phones now vs technology just a few years ago. The list could go on forever, but this truly is an advancement in science, and I'm not a scientist.

[@chamangus]

@@jeremy19931710 She made it very clear (at about 12:00) that this was a completely collaborative effort.

[@leonwang3072]

Very clever idea for solving the “confident” issue.👍

[@MarylandTerps1]

Just an awesome job, congratulations to Katie and the team!! On to the next one, keep pushing those boundaries!!

[@carolinasaavedra1942]

From Misty S. Boyer "There's a lot of news going on about the "black hole girl" right now, and how she's being given too much credit for her role in the historic first image of a black hole. Because this is too important, I want to set the record straight. Once Katie Bouman became the "face" of the black hole photo, and articles began to call her "the woman behind the black hole photo", an assortment of people that I'm strongly inclined to call incels but won't decided to figure out just how much of a role she had in it. Why? You'd have to ask them. Something about her attractiveness, youthfulness, and femaleness disturbed them to the point where they had to go digging. And after digging, they found Andrew Chael, who wrote an algorithm, and put his algorithm online. Andrew Chael worked on the black hole photo as well. And because people kept saying that Katie Bouman wrote "the algorithm", these people decided that "the algorithm" in question must be Chael's. So they looked at Chael's GitHub repository and checked the history. The history showed that Andrew Chael made 850,000 commits to the GitHub repository, while Katie Bouman made only 2,400. "Oh my god!" they all said. "He did almost all of the work on the algorithm and yet she's the one getting all of the credit!" They dug a little deeper - but not much - and discovered that the algorithm that "ultimately" generated the world-famous photo was created a different man, named Mareki Honma. "She's taken the credit from two men!" they gasped. "Feminism and the PC media is destroying everything!" There were, of course, those who tried to be kind. "She's always said that this was a team effort," they said. "We don't blame her, we blame the media. She didn't ask to become the poster girl of a team project she barely contributed to." Meanwhile, Andrew Chael - a gay man - tweeted in defense of her. He thanked people for congratulating him on the work he'd spent years on but clarified that if they were doing so as a part of a sexist attack on Katie Bouman, they should go away and reconsider their lives. He said that his work couldn't have happened without Katie. And it turns out that he was the one who took the viral photo of Bouman, specifically because he didn't want her contributions to be lost to history. So I decided to find out for myself what Katie Bouman's actual contributions were. As a programmer, I'm well aware that the number of GitHub commits means nothing without context. And Chael himself clarified that the lines being counted in the commits were from automatic commits of large data files. The actual software was made up of 68,000 lines, and though he didn't count how many he did personally, someone else assessed that he wrote about 24,000 of those. Whether 68,000 or 24,000-- it's more than 2,400 right? Why call it "her" algorithm, then? Because there's more than one algorithm being referenced here. These people just don't realize it. I'll work my way backward because it's easier to explain that way. The photo that everyone is looking at, the world famous black hole photo? It's actually a composite photo. It was generated by an algorithm credited to Mareki Honma. Honma's algorithm, based on MRI technology, is used to "stitch together" photos and fill in the missing pixels by analyzing the surrounding pixels. Honma's algorithm requires other people's photos to work. So where did he get the photos? The photos making up the composite were generated by 4 separate teams, led by Katie Bouman, Andrew Chael, Kazu Akiyama, and Michael Johnson. Each team was given a copy of the black hole data and isolated from each other. Between the four of them, they used three algorithms to each generate an image. One of the algorithms used was created by Katie Bouman, called CHIRP (more on that later). One was created by Andrew Chael, with help from Kazu Akiyama (and a confirmed 2400 lines of assistance from Katie Bouman.) And one was a traditional, already-existing algorithm. The purpose of this division and isolation of teams was deliberately done to test the accuracy of the black hole data they were all using. If four isolated teams using different algorithms all got similar results, that would indicate that the data itself was accurate. And lo, that's exactly what happened. The data wasn't just good, it's the most accurate of its kind. 5 petabytes (millions of billions of bytes) worth of accurate black hole data. But where did the data come from? Eight radio telescopes around the world trained their attention on the night sky in the direction of this black hole. The black hole is some ungodly distance away, a relative speck amidst billions of celestial bodies. And what the telescopes caught was not only the data of the black hole but the data of everything else as well. Data that would need to be sorted. Clearly, it's not the sort of thing you can sort by hand. To separate the wheat (one specific black hole's data) from the chaff (literally everything else around and between here and there) required an algorithm that could identify and single it out, calculations that were crunched across 800 CPUs on a 40Gbit/s network. And given that the resulting black hole-specific data was 5 petabytes (hundreds of pounds worth of hard drives!) you can imagine that the original data set was many times larger. The algorithm that accomplished this feat was called CHIRP, short for "Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors". CHIRP was created by Katie Bouman. At the age of 23, she knew nothing about black holes. Her field is computer science and artificial intelligence, topics she'd been involved in since high school. But she had a theory that black holes have shadows, and her algorithm was designed to find those shadows. Katie Bouman used a variety of what MIT called "clever algebraic solutions" to overcome the obstacles involved in creating the CHIRP algorithm. And though she had a team working to help her, her name comes first on the peer-reviewed documentation. It's called the CHIRP algorithm because that's what she named it. It's the only reason these images could be created, and it's responsible for creating some of the images that were incorporated into the final image. It's the algorithm that made the effort of collecting all that data worth it. Any data analyst can tell you that you can't analyze or visualize data until it's been prepared first. Cleaned up. Narrowed down to the important information. That's what Katie Bouman did, and after working as a data analyst for two years with a focus on this exact thing - data transformation - I can tell you it's not easy. It's not easy on the small data sets I worked with, where I could wind up spending a week looking for the patterns in a 68K Excel spreadsheet with only one month's worth of programming for a single TV station! Katie Bouman's 2,400 line contribution to Andrew Chael's work is on top of all of her other work. She spent six years on the CHIRP algorithm, and 2 more years refining it, before the data set she created was given to four teams-- who ultimately spent a month analyzing it. The data collection phase of this took 10 days in April 2017, when the eight telescopes simultaneously trained their gazes towards the black hole. This photo was ultimately created as a way to test Katie Bouman's algorithm for accuracy. MIT says that it's far more accurate than similar predecessors. And it is the algorithm that gave us our first direct image of a black hole. Around the internet, there are people who have the misperception that Katie Bouman is just the pretty face, a minor contributor to a project where men like Andrew Chael and Mareki Honma deserve the credit. There are people pushing memes and narratives that she's only being given such acclaim because of feminism. And because Katie Bouman refuses to say that this was anything other than a team effort, even the most flattering comments about her still place her contributions to the photo at equal or less-than-equal contribution to others. But I'm writing to set the story straight: When it is written that Katie Bouman is the woman "behind the black hole photo", it is objectively true. When Andrew Chael says that his software could not have worked without her, he isn't just being a stand-up guy, he's being literal. And while it's true that every one of the 200+ people involved placed an important role, Katie Bouman deserves every ounce of superstardom she receives. If there must be a face to this project - and there usually is - then it should be her, her fingers twined across her lips, her gleeful eyes luminous and wide with awe and joy. Edited: Thinking on it a little further, I felt I should clarify that I'm not actually trying to downplay Andrew Chael. His imaging algorithm is actually the result of years of effort, a labor of love. Each image that could be composited into the final photo brought with it a unique take on the data, without which the final photo wouldn't have been complete. So let's take a moment to celebrate the fact that two of the most integral contributors to the first direct photo of a black hole was a woman and a gay man."

[@alexdiamantis9141]

you just know that a TED Talk is good when it starts off with "In the movie Interstellar..."

[@swapniljadhav3239]

Alex Diamantis you don't say bro!!

[@ivanbustelo79]

Alex Diamantis pizza mozzarella

[@rickyv1439]

Alex Diamantis no

[@alexdiamantis9141]

RELLA RELLA RELLA RELLA

[@SioGG]

If you're interested in this and in the movie Interstellar you should watch the documentary "The Science of interstellar", great documentary.

[@lvlyberry]

And in 2019 you did it!!! Congratulations katie😍 you're sooo amazingggg

[@tanmoydutta5846]

And you made it possible, finally

[@AdemolaAlabi]

This is a brilliant young lady, I am awed at her achievements in astronomy

[@Anita_Bath]

Dude, she's not gonna go out with you. Just forget about it.

[@ArtemusPrime]

She's simply brilliant. She was completely right!

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

LMAO NO SHE LITERALLY WATCHED THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR AND PHOTOSHOPPED THE "BLACK HOLE" FROM IT.

[@cathjerabkova]

Thank you Katie, great speech :)

[@Diego-ys9tv]

This is so cool to see now that they achieve their main goal. Just imagine all the videos out there with great projects and ideas that could become a reality in a matter of time. This really fills me with hope and excitement. All of the great achievements in history were seem "impossible" in the past. We can do incredible things. Let's do them.

[@falgunpatel8764]

I thought this video is uploaded just after the black hole image until I read the comments.

haha exactly what i thought

[@danielrodrigues4903]

Look at the timestamp lol. There is always one right under the video in the description

[@floren_ce]

girl i understood a fifth of what you said about reconstructing images but congrats about the black hole pic

[@drjojo5551]

Flo....go to your local photoshop and they'll make you a dozen that are just like it, some even different!

[@sunnystreet4950]

When I saw the photo of the black hole, I honestly started to cry. It’s a beautiful, amazing thing and I am in awed that I live in a time where I can see a freaking black hole.

[@yellowNred]

Thanks, Katie. I can’t imagine how happy you are inside.

[@Livsfitz]

can you imagine this as your career and your research?? How tedious but how exciting! Producing a picture of a black hole would be incredible, it would change astronomy!

[@judithjanneck1719]

MisterLivs it's a ring and only blackness... (at least most likely) How much can change that..

[@wackedupYUMYUMS]

Judith Janneck evidence that physics in certain parts of the universe don't apply. And set the foundation for future attempts to coordinate international projects to see things we shouldnt be able to

[@pinkdude7100]

Judith Janneck It's not just a damn ring of blackness.

[@obrkenobi1170]

It wouldn't change astronomy.

[@HigherPlanes]

It's def gonna have some roundness and darkness

[@missiebrown579]

Congratulations Katie! The pic is beautiful ❤

[@Shravaka1]

Katie ROCKS! She is to be Honored and Recognized, as well as the entire Event Horizon team, for an awesome job well done....

[@WeTravelOnlyByNightAsItsSoHot]

This Dr now Associate Professor is the very definition of sparkly intelligence. Her Passion and mental emotional energy she brings to her field and this presentation she is just electric and glowing, is what makes people want to learn more about STEM fields.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Excellent! I love seeing this sort of enthusiasm (and expertise) from young scientists! Well done, Katie!

[@jlind3161]

Would love to see her do even more.

[@R4K1B-]

@@jlind3161 she actually did it. She got the first picture of a black hole

[@jlind3161]

@@R4K1B- It was her? Quite the coincidence, because I didn't know that. I have my own opinion when it comes to the 'picture', but I am kinda proud of what people still achieve and in this case I'm now really happy for her, in fact I congratulated her the other day, but didn't really remember that it was her. Thank you very much for reminding me! Peace Jo&π

[@Sujad]

@@R4K1B- I can't imagine how Andrew Chael must feel. He wrote 95% of the code used for the algorithm that allowed the pictures to be created but instead of being heaped with the praise he deserves, some random girl who barely contributed anything to the algorithm gets all of the credit and becomes the sole face of it. He can't even complain about it either or he'll be branded a misogynist and have his academic future destroyed.

[@leonardokrugel6363]

And here we are. Two yeas later and we have it, a picture of a Supermassive Black Hole. Thank you Katie Bouman and the EHT team.

[@jamesmitchell6925]

I love her so much. She is so inspiring. I hope I get to meet her someday and thank her for her work. I wish I could go back in time to the day this was recorded and tell what her efforts have achieved.

[@Sujad]

You hope to be able to steal the credit for other people's work?

[@mjproebstle]

some of the renderings are pretty close to the now known first photo, so the modeling was pretty accurate! bravo!

[@trash9598]

Black Hole: I absorb light and swallow everything in my path! No one will ever see me >:) *Humans on a rock take a picture of it anyway* Black hole: _Am I a joke to you?_

[@techmech3893]

Lol

[@binhminhduongg]

Damn

[@MalithArambage]

LMAO

[@patisserie1524]

Selfieee! 😎

[@ikimonogakarifans6213]

@@patisserie1524 let's take selfie with black hole 😎

[@ThisIsAigle]

I love how the artist render at 4:20 is almost exactly the image we got for the real picture.

[@MaNuLaToRSMedia]

ThisIsAigle yep

[@jiv32]

This is the greatest meeting of a deadline of all time. Heck, I can't even get to work on time in the morning.

[@tanvirhasan5064]

How passionate she was!! Passion makes success. Thanks to all team member of Event Horizon Telescope for showing us the giant Black Hole and specially Katie Bouman

[@storrance]

Explaining mysteries of the universe while standing in front of stacks of solo cups.

[@vedantojha7351]

And I'm still trying to figure out keyboard shortcut for converting small letters to capitals after writing them.

[@bososaclab4715]

Vedant Ojha It’s alt + f4

[@kingkylie9655]

@@bososaclab4715 if only science and phsyics was that easy too

[@shaizlygo7332]

Haha

[@lalitham.p4231]

@@bososaclab4715 thanks

[@RobertoShiroma]

I would say personally fantastic amazing job to dr Katie Bouman and all the team to that great picture taken, if I could to, but I can't. So, dr Bouman, take my thumbs up to your ted talk as a sign of that. I wish we had more inspiring and passionate people like you in earth. Thanks again!

[@ArthurDentDK]

Very cool video. I remember doing eigenvector decomposition in an engineering course to reduce noise in a scrambled version of Mona Lisa, which also creates a feature set of e.g. straight lines at different angles, semicircles, gradients etc. Using a massive amount of images would lead to a very robust set of features. This video really made me feel that I understand the fundamentals of the method. Cool! :D

[@EvanYoungMusic]

She is so adorable! And she's extremely intelligent. Congrats to her!

[@KurtisC93]

She really is. A very beautiful and intelligent young woman.

[@DanielNevilleDSouza]

And she seems so passionate about her work

[@BatmanLampin]

Whartever she's selling I'm buying lol. You can't have that much enthusiasm, passion, and knowledge AND be wrong. Impossible.

[@kiritgupta]

Akshay Kumar the catch is that it will draw out commentary from vile ignorant worms.

[@kiritgupta]

Akshay Kumar There are two seperate issues here. I do agree with you that the adjectives you highlighted are unnecessary, but I’ll point out that these have been applied by third persons. You, however, are stating that simply because someone said those things (again, which I agree have nothing to do with her contribution, and are completely irrelevant) that it implies that she is ‘not the actual brains’? Besides, she repeatedly says she is part of a large, multinational team, so why do you incorrectly force the false fact that she is claiming to exclusively be the actual brains? You your own words before: whenever you see ‘a woman’ ... there must be a catch. Does that mean that whenever you see a man, that there is no catch? Do you not see the obvious gender bias you are exhibiting? Don’t you think we will be holding humanity back if we constantly continue to suppress and exclude one half of it? One more thing: it’s the people who use words like smart and beautiful that are truly mischaracterising the achievement here by focusing on completely the wrong thing. If you find that this bothers you, you are not alone, it bothers me as well. I however don’t direct my frustration towards the subject of their comments. It would be more appropriate to point out to those commenters that they are missing the point, rather than to belittle their subject.

[@omahajoe5421]

She's adorable 😍 We must protect her at all costs. Lol

[@adithya1791]

Omaha Joe No she is her own woman, she can take care if herself

[@roman51220]

The world has a new waifu

[@pauliexcluded1]

Ha! I see what you did there...

[@omahajoe5421]

@@adithya1791r/ woooooooooooooooosh

[@rajatnegi07]

Proteccc

[@flyme2themoon720]

In just watched the edge of all we know and the most charismatic person was Katie that led me to this as soon as it ended.Her presence and personality mixed with extreme intelligence captures and commands your attention.

[@Carlanga3533]

She is a lovely lady, looks humble, super smart, confident and excited for what she is talking about, I feel great admiration for her.