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U-M grad Katie Bouman with the first image of a black hole she helped capture with a computer program she developed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was considered impossible. It was said to be like taking a picture of a grapefruit on the moon but with a radio telescope. That\u2019s how 29-year-old computer scientist Katie Bouman<\/strong> explained an international effort to capture an image of a black hole<\/a>. She finally made history Wednesday morning after she and a team working on an Event Horizon Telescope project were able to accomplish that very goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPressing ‘go’ on a computer program I had written and immediately seeing a ring come into focus for the first time was amazing and exhilarating. We had prepared for years, but even so it was too easy!\u201d she said to Newsweek<\/a>. \u201cIt was an unforgettable moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouman earned an electrical engineering degree at the University of Michigan in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was considered impossible. It was said to be like taking a picture of a grapefruit on the moon but with a radio telescope. That\u2019s how 29-year-old computer scientist Katie Bouman explained an international effort to capture an image of a black hole. She finally made history Wednesday morning after she and a team working on an Event\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,177,127],"class_list":["post-13516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-innovation","tag-programming","tag-software"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole.jpg",800,466,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-200x117.jpg",200,117,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-300x175.jpg",300,175,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-768x447.jpg",665,387,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-700x408.jpg",600,350,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole.jpg",800,466,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole.jpg",800,466,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole-665x387.jpg",665,387,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blackhole.jpg",400,233,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It was considered impossible. It was said to be like taking a picture of a grapefruit on the moon but with a radio telescope. That\u2019s how 29-year-old computer scientist Katie Bouman explained an international effort to capture an image of a black hole. She finally made history Wednesday morning after she and a team working…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}