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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Well she was right
So, SHE devised the algorithms that would take funky data that does not look by itself as an image of a black hole.
She constructed the math processes that would generate out of all the data something that looks incredibly similar to her own imagination more than 2 years before.
Is there perhaps another reason that the resultant triumphal black hole image that her data processing algorithms spit out look ALMOST IDENTICAL to her guesses more than 2 years before?
"to find the MOST REASONABLE Image that also fits the telescope measurements"
"Reasonable" is human subjective guessing
Algorithms are told by humans what they should be looking for and what "irrelevant data" to discard and are developed in a step-by-step process using computers that are programmed with their own software biases.
This black hole observed by human eyes in space itself near enough to stay clear of gravitational pull but close enough to observe with the naked eye and telescopic aids may indeed look almost precisely as Katie and crew predicted.
But, in light of how data today is parsed by so many algorithms to determine so many "trends" & used to Make Predictions, I am a bit suspicious of so many of our revelations dependent on gathering "data" that is so rough it must be processed by Algorithms to make it "clearer" .
Easy
just use Huawei P30 Pro
Google makes videos like this on March 31st.. it say so many technology, tables, photos, etc that all look real only the last line in the end saying available on march 31st tells everything was fake. is this is also like that… ? did they fooled us showing a graphic picture to proove that we are working on great things and we need more billions?
Why it feels like I'm watching a film
Good presentation!
Hats off to you mam
i have crush on her…..
Great job! Congrats!
And they did it
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! 😀
wow??!! this aged well didnt it??
How to take a photo of a black hole. Step 1
Take a black woman and grab your phone.:)
Noble praise for him
men triggered because it's a female who gets all the attention for the first time.
It is a false and simple feminist propaganda and SJW lie.
SHE ACTUALLY DID IT !!!!!
Thank Andrew chael…
I tought you just need a toilet and one explosive diarrhea…
Wow came true
Back when it was a dream !!
It is such a breakthrough !! I wish Einstein and Hawking were alive now !!
Black hole is area where Ether density close to zero.
So light cannot travel through its.
And gravitation is just Ether pressure.
Marry me ?
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes with gobbledygook.